Description: Syntactic Gradience Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). The Nature of Grammatical Indeterminacy Author(s): Bas Aarts Format: Paperback Publisher: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom Imprint: Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 9780199219278, 978-0199219278 Synopsis 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 defined and differentiated. Professor Aarts addresses the tension between linguistic concepts and the continuous phenomena they describe by testing and categorizing grammatical vagueness and indeterminacy. He considers to what extent gradience is a grammatical phenomenon or a by-product of imperfect linguistic description, and makes a series of linked proposals for its theoretical formalization. Bas Aarts draws on, and reviews, work in psychology, philosophy and language from Aristotle to Chomsky., and writes clearly on a fascinating and important aspect of language and cognition. His book will appeal to scholars and graduate students of language and syntactic theory in departments of (English) linguistics, philosophy and cognitive science.
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Book Title: Syntactic Gradience
Number of Pages: 296 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Syntactic Gradience: the Nature of Grammatical Indeterminacy
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Year: 2007
Item Height: 230 mm
Item Weight: 450 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Bas Aarts
Subject Area: Developmental Psychology
Item Width: 154 mm
Format: Paperback