Fuzzy Grammar

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