Fuzzy grammar : a reader / / edited by Bas Aarts ... [et al.]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910829398603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2004
• ISBN: 1-383-04042-7; 1-280-83830-2; 0-19-153228-2; 1-4294-6865-3
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (537 p.)
• Collana: Oxford scholarship online
• Altri autori (Persone): AartsBas <1961->
• Disciplina: 415/.018
• Soggetti: Relational grammar; Grammar, Comparative and general
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Formerly CIP.; Previously issued in print: 2004.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction : the nature of grammatical categories and their representation -- Philosophical background. Categories / Aristotle ; Concepts / Gottlob Frege ; Vagueness / Bertrand Russell ; Family resemblances / Ludwig Wittgenstein ; The phenomena of vagueness / Rosanna Keefe -- Categories in cognition. The boundaries of words and their meanings / William Labov ; Principles of categorization / Eleanor Rosch ; Categorization, fuzziness, and family resemblances / Ray Jackendoff ; Discreteness / Ronald W. Langacker ; The importance of categorization / George Lakoff -- Categories in grammar. Parts of speech / Otto Jespersen ; English word classes / David Crystal ; A notional approach to the parts of speech / John Lyons ; Syntactic categories and notional features / John M. Anderson ; Bounded regions / Ronald W. Langacker ; The discourse basis for lexical categories in universal grammar / Paul J. Hopper and Sandra A. Thompson ; Grammatical categories / John Taylor -- Gradience in grammar. Gradience / Dwight Bolinger ; Degrees of grammaticalness / Noam Chomsky ; Descriptive statement and serial relationship / Randolph Quirk ; On the analysis of linguistic vagueness / Jiri V. Neustupny ; Nouniness / John Robert Ross ; The coordination-subordination ; gradient / Randolph Quirk ... [et al.] ; The nature of graded judgments / Carson T. Schutze -- Criticisms and responses. Description of language design / Martin Joos ; 'Prototypes save' / Anna Wierzbicka ; Fuzziness and categorization / Denis Bouchard ; The discrete nature of syntactic categories : against a prototype-based account / Frederick J. Newmeyer.
• Sommario/riassunto: This is a collection of the best work by philosophers, cognitive scientists and linguists on semantic gradience and linguistic uncertainty - such as when warm becomes hot, how many grains make a heap and when a puddle becomes a pond - introduced, explained, contextualised and indexed.