Fuzzy grammar
Subtitle: a reader
By: edited by Bas Aarts ... [et al.].
Contributors: Aarts, Bas, 1961-
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 526
Subjects: Relational grammar; Grammar, Comparative and general
Description: "Fuzzy Grammar is designed to be of use to scholars and students in linguistics, philosophy, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and computational linguistics. It is fully indexed."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the nature of grammatical categories and their representation; title: Philosophical background. Categories / Aristotle ; Concepts / Gottlob Frege ; Vagueness / Bertrand Russell ; Family resemblances / Ludwig Wittgenstein ; The phenomena of vagueness / Rosanna Keefe; title: 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; title: 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; title: Gradience in grammar. Gradience / Dwight Bolinger ; Degrees of grammaticalness / Noam Chomsky ; Descriptive statement and serial relationship / Randolph Quirk ; On the analysis of linguistic vagueness / Jir̆í V. Neustupný ; Nouniness / John Robert Ross ; The coordination-subordination gradient / Randolph Quirk ... [et al.] ; The nature of graded judgments / Carson T. Schütze; title: 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.