Table of Contents

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

About the Author

Bas Aarts is Reader in Modern English Language and Director of the Survey of English Usage at University College London. He has held visiting appointments at a number of universities, and is currently working on a monograph on linguistic gradience. His other publications include Small Clauses in English: the Nonverbal Types (Mouton de Gruyter 1992), The Verb in Contemporary English (Cambridge University Press 1995, edited with Charles F. Meyer),
English Syntax and Argumentation (Palgrave Macmillan 1997/2001), Investigating Natural Language: Working with the British Component of the International Corpus of English (John Benjamins 2002, with Gerald Nelson and Sean
Wallis) and The Handbook of English Linguistics (Blackwell forthcoming, edited with April McMahon). Aarts is one of the founding editors of the journal English Language and Linguistics (with David Denison and Richard Hogg). David Denison is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Manchester and has held visiting appointments in Amsterdam, Vancouver, and Santiago. He has published widely on historical English syntax and semantics, notably English Historical
Syntax (Longman 1993) and a major chapter in the Cambridge History of the English Language (Cambridge University Press 1998). He has been joint editor of the Longman Linguistics Library and is (with Bas Aarts and Richard
Hogg) a founding editor of the journal English Language and Linguistics. Evelien Keizer obtained her PhD in English Linguistics at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Since then she has worked mainly on the noun phrase, both in Dutch and in English. She currently lectures at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and is writing a monograph on the structural, cognitive and communicative aspects of the English noun phrase. Gergana Popova is currently working on a PhD at the Department of
Language and Linguistics, University of Essex. Previously she held a position as a Lecturer in English Linguistics at the Department of English and American Studies, University of Sofia. Her research interests are in
the areas of morphology and semantics.