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Author:   Bas Aarts (, University College London) ,  David Denison (, University of Manchester) ,  Evelien Keizer (, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) ,  Gergana Popova (, University of Essex)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   1.104kg
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9780199262564

ISBN 10:   019926256
Pages:   536
Publication Date:   25 March 2004
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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. Neustupný: 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. Schütze: 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

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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 Sean Wallis) 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 Historical Syntax (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 Richard Hogg) 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 of Language 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 in the areas of morphology and semantics.

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