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Syntactic Gradience The Nature of Grammatical Indeterminacy

Aarts, Bas
Heftet / 2007 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780199219278
Publisert
2007
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
450 gr
Høyde
230 mm
Bredde
154 mm
Dybde
16 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
296

Forfatter
Aarts, Bas

Om bidragsyterne

Bas Aarts is Professor of English Linguistics and Director of the Survey of English Usage at University College London. His previous books include Small Clauses in English: the Nonverbal Types (Mouton de Gruyter, 1992); The Verb in Contemporary English, co-edited with Charles F. Meyer (Cambridge University Press, 1995); English Syntax and Argumentation (Palgrave Macmillan, 1997; 2001): Investigating Natural Language: Working with the British Component of the International Corpus of English, co-authored with Gerald Nelson and Sean Wallis (John Benjamins, 2002); Fuzzy Grammar: A Reader co-edited with David Denison, Evelien Keizer, and Gergana Popova (Oxford University Press, 2004); and The Handbook of English Linguistics co-edited with April McMahon (Blackwell, 2006). With David Denison and Richard Hogg he is a founding editor of the journal English Language and Linguistics.

Syntactic Gradience The Nature of Grammatical Indeterminacy

Aarts, Bas
Heftet / 2007 / Engelsk
Aarts, Bas
Heftet / 2007 / Engelsk
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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.
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An investigation of gradience in syntax, conceived of as grammatical indeterminacy, this book looks at gradience in English word classes, phrases, clauses and constructions, and examines how it may be recognized, defined, and differentiated. It considers the degree to which gradience is a grammatical phenomenon.
Les mer
1. Introduction ; PART I THEORETICAL BACKGROUND ; 2. Categorization in Linguistics ; 3. Grammatical Gradience ; 4. Gradience and Related Notions ; PART II GRADIENCE IN ENGLISH CASE STUDIES ; 5. Subsective Gradience ; 6. Intersective Gradience ; 7. Constructional Gradience ; PART III FORMALIZATION ; 8. Modelling Syntactic Gradience ; References ; Index
Les mer
Aarts's judicious tackling of a tricky subject deserves praise. This book is likely to be regarded as a landmark in the study of indeterminacy and gradience for years to come.
The first exhaustive investigation of gradience in grammar Proposes a new theoretical explanation Draws on work in psychology, philosophy, and linguistics from Aristotle to Chomsky Written with minimal recourse to jargon
Les mer
Bas Aarts is Professor of English Linguistics and Director of the Survey of English Usage at University College London. His previous books include Small Clauses in English: the Nonverbal Types (Mouton de Gruyter, 1992); The Verb in Contemporary English, co-edited with Charles F. Meyer (Cambridge University Press, 1995); English Syntax and Argumentation (Palgrave Macmillan, 1997; 2001): Investigating Natural Language: Working with the British Component of the International Corpus of English, co-authored with Gerald Nelson and Sean Wallis (John Benjamins, 2002); Fuzzy Grammar: A Reader co-edited with David Denison, Evelien Keizer, and Gergana Popova (Oxford University Press, 2004); and The Handbook of English Linguistics co-edited with April McMahon (Blackwell, 2006). With David Denison and Richard Hogg he is a founding editor of the journal English Language and Linguistics.
Les mer
The first exhaustive investigation of gradience in grammar Proposes a new theoretical explanation Draws on work in psychology, philosophy, and linguistics from Aristotle to Chomsky Written with minimal recourse to jargon
Les mer

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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.
Les mer
An investigation of gradience in syntax, conceived of as grammatical indeterminacy, this book looks at gradience in English word classes, phrases, clauses and constructions, and examines how it may be recognized, defined, and differentiated. It considers the degree to which gradience is a grammatical phenomenon.
Les mer
1. Introduction ; PART I THEORETICAL BACKGROUND ; 2. Categorization in Linguistics ; 3. Grammatical Gradience ; 4. Gradience and Related Notions ; PART II GRADIENCE IN ENGLISH CASE STUDIES ; 5. Subsective Gradience ; 6. Intersective Gradience ; 7. Constructional Gradience ; PART III FORMALIZATION ; 8. Modelling Syntactic Gradience ; References ; Index
Les mer
Aarts's judicious tackling of a tricky subject deserves praise. This book is likely to be regarded as a landmark in the study of indeterminacy and gradience for years to come.
The first exhaustive investigation of gradience in grammar Proposes a new theoretical explanation Draws on work in psychology, philosophy, and linguistics from Aristotle to Chomsky Written with minimal recourse to jargon
Les mer
Bas Aarts is Professor of English Linguistics and Director of the Survey of English Usage at University College London. His previous books include Small Clauses in English: the Nonverbal Types (Mouton de Gruyter, 1992); The Verb in Contemporary English, co-edited with Charles F. Meyer (Cambridge University Press, 1995); English Syntax and Argumentation (Palgrave Macmillan, 1997; 2001): Investigating Natural Language: Working with the British Component of the International Corpus of English, co-authored with Gerald Nelson and Sean Wallis (John Benjamins, 2002); Fuzzy Grammar: A Reader co-edited with David Denison, Evelien Keizer, and Gergana Popova (Oxford University Press, 2004); and The Handbook of English Linguistics co-edited with April McMahon (Blackwell, 2006). With David Denison and Richard Hogg he is a founding editor of the journal English Language and Linguistics.
Les mer
The first exhaustive investigation of gradience in grammar Proposes a new theoretical explanation Draws on work in psychology, philosophy, and linguistics from Aristotle to Chomsky Written with minimal recourse to jargon
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780199219278
Publisert
2007
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
450 gr
Høyde
230 mm
Bredde
154 mm
Dybde
16 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
296

Forfatter
Aarts, Bas

Om bidragsyterne

Bas Aarts is Professor of English Linguistics and Director of the Survey of English Usage at University College London. His previous books include Small Clauses in English: the Nonverbal Types (Mouton de Gruyter, 1992); The Verb in Contemporary English, co-edited with Charles F. Meyer (Cambridge University Press, 1995); English Syntax and Argumentation (Palgrave Macmillan, 1997; 2001): Investigating Natural Language: Working with the British Component of the International Corpus of English, co-authored with Gerald Nelson and Sean Wallis (John Benjamins, 2002); Fuzzy Grammar: A Reader co-edited with David Denison, Evelien Keizer, and Gergana Popova (Oxford University Press, 2004); and The Handbook of English Linguistics co-edited with April McMahon (Blackwell, 2006). With David Denison and Richard Hogg he is a founding editor of the journal English Language and Linguistics.

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