Syntactic Gradience

• 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

Readership: Scholars and graduate students of syntactic theory and linguistic competence and performance in departments of linguistics, philosophy, and cognitive science.

Bas Aarts, University College London

"Syntactical Gradience is a very interesting and well-balanced book...a carefully written, compact but nonetheless thoroughgoing study on the subject of syntactic gradience." - Oliver Schallert, Linguist List

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