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Syntactic gradience : the nature of grammatical indeterminacy / Bas Aarts

Author
Aarts, Bas, 1961-
Published
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xii, 280 pages) : illustrations
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Contents
Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; 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; Names Index; Subject Index.
Summary
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 cognitiv.
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ISBN
0191527459 (electronic bk.)
9780191527456 (electronic bk.)
9786611149833
661114983X
0199219265 (Cloth)
0199219273 (Paper)
9780199219261 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
9780199219278 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-263) and indexes.
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