Syntactic Gradience

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 cognitive science.

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

(Oxford)

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

(Oxford)