Readership: Professional linguists and their graduate students; philosophers; cognitive scientists and others interested in the workings of language.
Edited by Bas Aarts, University College London, David Denison, University of Manchester, Evelien Keizer, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and Gergana Popova, University of Essex
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
