Syntactic gradience :: the nature of grammatical indeterminacy /

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...

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1. Verfasser: Aarts, Bas, 1961-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Schriftenreihe:Oxford linguistics.
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Zusammenfassung: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 cognitiv.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xii, 280 pages :)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-263) and indexes.
ISBN:0191527459
9780191527456
9786611149833
661114983X