Fuzzy Grammar: A Reader by Bas Aarts (English) Paperback Book

Description: Fuzzy Grammar by Bas Aarts, David Denison, Evelien Keizer, Gergana Popova A collection of the best work by philosophers, cognitive scientists, and linguists on grammatical 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, contextualized, and indexed. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 workis 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. Author Biography Bas Aarts is Reader in Modern English Language and Director of the Survey of English Usage at University College London. He has held visiting appointments at a number of universities, and is currently working on a monograph on linguistic gradience. His other publications include Small Clauses in English: the Nonverbal Types (Mouton de Gruyter 1992), The Verb in Contemporary English (Cambridge University Press 1995, edited with Charles F. Meyer),English Syntax and Argumentation (Palgrave Macmillan 1997/2001), Investigating Natural Language: Working with the British Component of the International Corpus of English (John Benjamins 2002, with Gerald Nelson and SeanWallis) and The Handbook of English Linguistics (Blackwell forthcoming, edited with April McMahon). Aarts is one of the founding editors of the journal English Language and Linguistics (with David Denison and Richard Hogg). David Denison is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Manchester and has held visiting appointments in Amsterdam, Vancouver, and Santiago. He has published widely on historical English syntax and semantics, notably English HistoricalSyntax (Longman 1993) and a major chapter in the Cambridge History of the English Language (Cambridge University Press 1998). He has been joint editor of the Longman Linguistics Library and is (with Bas Aarts and RichardHogg) a founding editor of the journal English Language and Linguistics. Evelien Keizer obtained her PhD in English Linguistics at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Since then she has worked mainly on the noun phrase, both in Dutch and in English. She currently lectures at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and is writing a monograph on the structural, cognitive and communicative aspects of the English noun phrase. Gergana Popova is currently working on a PhD at the Department ofLanguage and Linguistics, University of Essex. Previously she held a position as a Lecturer in English Linguistics at the Department of English and American Studies, University of Sofia. Her research interests are inthe areas of morphology and semantics. Table of Contents PrefaceIntroductionFuzzy Grammar: the nature of grammatical categories and their representationPart 1Philosophical background1: Aristotle: Aristotle on the categories2: Gottlob Frege: Frege on concepts3: Bertrand Russell: Vagueness4: Ludwig Wittgenstein: Family resemblances5: Rosanna Keefe: The phenomena of vaguenessPart 2Categories in cognition6: William Labov: The boundaries of words and their meanings7: Eleanor Rosch: Principles of categorization8: Ray Jackendoff: Jackendoff on categorisation, fuzziness and family resemblances9: Ronald W. Langacker: Discreteness10: George Lakoff: The importance of categorisationPart 3Categories in grammar11: Otto Jespersen: Jespersen on the parts of speech12: David Crystal: English word classes13: John Lyons: A notional approach to the parts of speech14: John M. Anderson: Syntactic categories and notional features15: Ronald W. Langacker: Bounded regions16: Paul Hopper and Sandra Thompson: The discourse basis for lexical categories in Universal Grammar17: John Taylor: Grammatical categoriesPart 4Gradience in grammar18: Dwight Bolinger: Bolinger on gradience19: Noam Chomsky: Degrees of grammaticalness20: Randolph Quirk: Descriptive statement and serial relationship21: J. V. NeustupnÝ: On the analysis of linguistic vagueness22: John Robert Ross: Nouniness23: Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech and Jan Svartvik: The coordination-subordination gradient24: Carson T. SchÜtze: The nature of graded judgmentsPart 5Criticisms and responses25: Martin Joos: Description of language design26: Anna Wierzbicka: Prototypes save27: Denis Bouchard: Fuzziness and categorization28: Frederick J. Newmeyer: The discrete nature of syntactic categories: against a prototype-based account Review Certainly worth reading...interesting, stimulating, and highly relevant in the current state of affairs in linguistics. * Galit W. Sassoon, Linguist List 15.3335 * Promotional A philosophical as well as linguistic collection of papers on gradience in meaning and syntax Long Description 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 workis 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. Review Quote Certainly worth reading...interesting, stimulating, and highly relevant in the current state of affairs in linguistics. Promotional "Headline" Preface Introduction Fuzzy Grammar: the nature of grammatical categories and their representation Part 1 Philosophical background 1. Aristotle: Aristotle on the categories 2. Gottlob Frege: Frege on concepts 3. Bertrand Russell: Vagueness 4. Ludwig Wittgenstein: Family resemblances 5. Rosanna Keefe: The phenomena of vagueness Part 2 Categories in cognition 6. William Labov: The boundaries of words and their meanings 7. Eleanor Rosch: Principles of categorization 8. Ray Jackendoff: Jackendoff on categorisation, fuzziness and family resemblances 9. Ronald W. Langacker: Discreteness 10. George Lakoff: The importance of categorisation Part 3 Categories in grammar 11. Otto Jespersen: Jespersen on the parts of speech 12. David Crystal: English word classes 13. John Lyons: A notional approach to the parts of speech 14. John M. Anderson: Syntactic categories and notional features 15. Ronald W. Langacker: Bounded regions 16. Paul Hopper and Sandra Thompson: The discourse basis for lexical categories in Universal Grammar 17. John Taylor: Grammatical categories Part 4 Gradience in grammar 18. Dwight Bolinger: Bolinger on gradience 19. Noam Chomsky: Degrees of grammaticalness 20. Randolph Quirk: Descriptive statement and serial relationship 21. J. V. Neustupny: On the analysis of linguistic vagueness 22. John Robert Ross: Nouniness 23. Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech and Jan Svartvik: The coordination-subordination gradient 24. Carson T. Schutze: The nature of graded judgments Part 5 Criticisms and responses 25. Martin Joos: Description of language design 26. Anna Wierzbicka: Prototypes save 27. Denis Bouchard: Fuzziness and categorization 28. Frederick J. Newmeyer: The discrete nature of syntactic categories: against a prototype-based account Feature Designed as a graduate text for students in linguistics, philosophy, literature, psychology, artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, etc. Details ISBN0199262578 Short Title FUZZY GRAMMAR Language English ISBN-10 0199262578 ISBN-13 9780199262571 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 415 Illustrations Yes Year 2004 Imprint Oxford University Press Subtitle A Reader Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Evelien Keizer DOI 10.1604/9780199262571 Author Gergana Popova UK Release Date 2004-03-25 AU Release Date 2004-03-25 NZ Release Date 2004-03-25 Birth 1948 Affiliation University of Essex Position World Health Organization Qualifications MD Pages 540 Publisher Oxford University Press Publication Date 2004-03-25 Alternative 9780199262564 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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