Syntactic Gradience : The Nature of Grammatical Indeterminacy.
Title:
Syntactic Gradience : The Nature of Grammatical Indeterminacy.
Author:
Aarts, Bas.
ISBN:
9780191527456
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (295 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- Part I: Theoretical Background -- 2 Categorization in Linguistics -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The classical philosophical tradition of categorization -- 2.3 The linguistic tradition: early grammarians -- 2.4 Twentieth-century approaches to linguistic categorization -- 3 Grammatical Gradience -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Notions of gradience in ancient and modern philosophy -- 3.3 The linguistic tradition: early grammarians -- 3.4 Twentieth-century approaches to gradience -- 3.5 Two types of gradience -- 4 Gradience and Related Notions -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Serial relationship -- 4.3 Syntactic mixing: mergers -- 4.4 Multiple analysis and reanalysis -- 4.5 Gradience and Prototype Theory -- 4.6 Gradience and Markedness Theory -- Part II: Gradience in English: Case Studies -- 5 Subsective Gradience -- 5.1 SG within word classes -- 5.2 SG within phrases -- 5.3 SG within clauses -- 5.4 SG in grammar -- 6 Intersective Gradience -- 6.1 IG between word classes -- 6.2 IG between phrases -- 6.3 IG in grammar -- 7 Constructional Gradience -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 A brief history of the notion 'construction' -- 7.3 The notion 'construction' -- 7.4 Constructional Gradience -- 7.5 Constructional Gradience in grammar -- 7.6 A purely syntactic approach to constructions -- Part III: Formalization -- 8 Modelling Syntactic Gradience -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Vagueness, representations, and gradience -- 8.3 A formalization of Subsective Gradience and Intersective Gradience -- 8.4 Some applications -- 8.5 The present account vs. the Aristotelian and 'Sorites' models -- 8.6 The syntactic properties of the categories -- 8.7 'True hybridity' -- 8.8 The nature of grammatical categories -- 8.9 The contiguity of grammatical categories -- 8.10 Conclusion -- References -- Index -- Names Index -- A -- B.
C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.
Abstract:
This is the first exhaustive investigation of gradience in syntax, conceived of as grammatical indeterminacy. It looks at gradience in English word classes, phrases, clauses and constructions, and examines how it may be recognized, defined, and differentiated. Bas Aarts considers the degree to which gradience is a grammatical phenomenon or a by-product of imperfect linguistic description, and makes a series of linked proposals for its theoretical formalization. His book will appeal. to scholars and students of language and syntactic theory in departments of linguistics, philosophy and cognitive science. - ;This is the first exhaustive investigation of gradience in syntax, conceived of as grammatical indeterminacy. It looks at gradience in English word classes, phrases, clauses and constructions, and examines how it may be defined and differentiated. Professor Aarts addresses the tension between linguistic concepts and the continuous phenomena they describe by testing and categorizing grammatical vagueness and indeterminacy. He considers to what extent gradience is a grammatical. phenomenon or a by-product of imperfect linguistic description, and makes a series of linked proposals for its theoretical formalization. Bas Aarts draws on, and reviews, work in psychology, philosophy and language from Aristotle to Chomsky., and writes clearly on a fascinating and important aspect of language and cognition. His book will appeal to scholars and graduate students of language and syntactic theory in departments of (English) linguistics, philosophy and cognitive science. - ;Syntactical Gradience is a very interesting and well-balanced book...a carefully written, compact but nonetheless thoroughgoing study on the subject of syntactic gradience. - Oliver Schallert, Linguist List.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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