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Fuzzy Grammar
A Reader

Edited by Bas Aarts, David Denison, Evelien Keizer, and Gergana Popova

Price: £31.00 (paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-926257-1
Publication date: 25 March 2004
536 pages, 49 line illus., 246x171 mm

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Description

Designed as a graduate text for students in linguistics, philosophy, literature, psychology, artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, etc.

This book brings together classic and recent papers in the philosophical and linguistic analysis of fuzzy grammar, gradience in meaning, word classes, and syntax. Issues such as how many grains make a heap, when a puddle becomes a pond, and so forth, have occupied thinkers since Aristotle and over the last two decades been the subject of increasing interest among linguists as well as in fields such as artificial intelligence and computational linguistics. The work is designed to be of use to students in all these fields. It has a substantial introduction, is divided into thematic parts, contains annotated sections of further reading, and is fully indexed.

Readership: Professional linguists and their graduate students; philosophers; cognitive scientists and others interested in the workings of language.

Contents

Preface

Introduction

Fuzzy Grammar: the nature of grammatical categories and their representation

Part 1

Philosophical background

1. Aristotle on the categories , Aristotle

2. Frege on concepts , Gottlob Frege

3. Vagueness , Bertrand Russell

4. Family resemblances , Ludwig Wittgenstein

5. The phenomena of vagueness , Rosanna Keefe

Part 2

Categories in cognition

6. The boundaries of words and their meanings , William Labov

7. Principles of categorization , Eleanor Rosch

8. Jackendoff on categorisation, fuzziness and family resemblances , Ray Jackendoff

9. Discreteness , Ronald W. Langacker

10. The importance of categorisation , George Lakoff

Part 3

Categories in grammar

11. Jespersen on the parts of speech , Otto Jespersen

12. English word classes , David Crystal

13. A notional approach to the parts of speech , John Lyons

14. Syntactic categories and notional features , John M. Anderson

15. Bounded regions , Ronald W. Langacker

16. The discourse basis for lexical categories in Universal Grammar , Paul Hopper and Sandra Thompson

17. Grammatical categories , John Taylor

Part 4

Gradience in grammar

18. Bolinger on gradience , Dwight Bolinger

19. Degrees of grammaticalness , Noam Chomsky

20. Descriptive statement and serial relationship , Randolph Quirk

21. On the analysis of linguistic vagueness , J. V. Neustupny

22. Nouniness , John Robert Ross

23. The coordination-subordination gradient , Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech and Jan Svartvik

24. The nature of graded judgments , Carson T. Schutze

Part 5

Criticisms and responses

25. Description of language design , Martin Joos

26. Prototypes save , Anna Wierzbicka

27. Fuzziness and categorization , Denis Bouchard

28. The discrete nature of syntactic categories: against a prototype-based account , Frederick J. Newmeyer

Preface

Introduction

Fuzzy Grammar: the nature of grammatical categories and their representation

Part 1

Philosophical background

1. Aristotle on the categories , Aristotle

2. Frege on concepts , Gottlob Frege

3. Vagueness , Bertrand Russell

4. Family resemblances , Ludwig Wittgenstein

5. The phenomena of vagueness , Rosanna Keefe

Part 2

Categories in cognition

6. The boundaries of words and their meanings , William Labov

7. Principles of categorization , Eleanor Rosch

8. Jackendoff on categorisation, fuzziness and family resemblances , Ray Jackendoff

9. Discreteness , Ronald W. Langacker

10. The importance of categorisation , George Lakoff

Part 3

Categories in grammar

11. Jespersen on the parts of speech , Otto Jespersen

12. English word classes , David Crystal

13. A notional approach to the parts of speech , John Lyons

14. Syntactic categories and notional features , John M. Anderson

15. Bounded regions , Ronald W. Langacker

16. The discourse basis for lexical categories in Universal Grammar , Paul Hopper and Sandra Thompson

17. Grammatical categories , John Taylor

Part 4

Gradience in grammar

18. Bolinger on gradience , Dwight Bolinger

19. Degrees of grammaticalness , Noam Chomsky

20. Descriptive statement and serial relationship , Randolph Quirk

21. On the analysis of linguistic vagueness , J. V. Neustupny

22. Nouniness , John Robert Ross

23. The coordination-subordination gradient , Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech and Jan Svartvik

24. The nature of graded judgments , Carson T. Schutze

Part 5

Criticisms and responses

25. Description of language design , Martin Joos

26. Prototypes save , Anna Wierzbicka

27. Fuzziness and categorization , Denis Bouchard

28. The discrete nature of syntactic categories: against a prototype-based account , Frederick J. Newmeyer

Authors, editors, and contributors

Edited by Bas Aarts, University College London,
David Denison, University of Manchester,
Evelien Keizer, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and
Gergana Popova, University of Essex

Links to web resources and related information

More in the same subject area:
Philosophy of language
Semantics (meaning
Pragmatics
Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure

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Fuzzy GrammarA Reader

Fuzzy Grammar
A Reader