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Abbreviations xi
Acknowledgements xiii
Introduction 1
Theoretical Background 7
Categorization in Linguistics 9
Introduction 9
The classical philosophical tradition of categorization 11
The linguistic tradition: early grammarians 14
Twentieth-century approaches to linguistic categorization 17
Bloomfield and American structuralism 17
Transformational grammar 18
Generative Semantics 23
Descriptive grammar 25
Cognitive approaches 26
Functional-typological and discourse typological linguistics 30
Other frameworks: Phrase Structure Grammar and Construction Grammar 32
Grammatical Gradience 34
Introduction 34
Notions of gradience in ancient and modern philosophy 35
The linguistic tradition: early grammarians 38
Twentieth-century approaches to gradience 39
The post-Bloomfieldians and Bolinger 39
Firth and Halliday 42
Transformational Grammar 43
Generative Semantics 52
Logical approaches to linguistic vagueness:the Prague school, Zadeh, and Ross 58
Descriptive grammar 62
Cognitive approaches 68
Functional-typological and discourse-typological linguistics 71
Optimality Theory 72
Probability Theory 73
Other frameworks: Phrase Structure Grammar, Word Grammar, Lexical-Functional Grammar, and Construction Grammar 75
Two types of gradience 79
Gradience and Related Notions 80
Introduction 80
Serial relationship 80
Syntactic mixing: mergers 83
Multiple analysis and reanalysis 86
Gradience and Prototype Theory 87
Gradience and Markedness Theory 90
Gradience in English: Case Studies 95
Subsective Gradience 97
SG within word classes 97
Verbs 98
Nouns 101
Adjectives 105
Prepositions 107
SG within phrases 111
SG within clauses 117
SG in grammar 121
Intersective Gradience 124
IG between word classes 124
Gradience between pre-head elements within noun phrases 124
Determinatives and pronouns 125
Determinatives and adjectives 125
Determinatives and adverbs 127
Adjectives and nouns 129
Adjectives and adverbs 136
Gradience between verbs and other word classes 138
Verbs and adjectives 138
Verbs and nouns 143
Verbs and prepositions/conjunctions 145
Verbs and adverbs 149
Further cases 150
Adverbs, prepositions, and conjunctions 150
Adverbs and nouns 155
Adjectives and prepositions 156
IG between phrases 158
Adjective phrases and noun phrases 158
Adjective phrases and prepositional phrases 160
Noun phrases and prepositional phrases 161
IG in grammar 162
Constructional Gradience 164
Introduction 164
A brief history of the notion 'construction' 164
Structuralism and Transformational Grammar 164
Descriptive grammar 166
Cognitive Linguistics 167
Constructionist frameworks 168
The notion 'construction' 170
Constructional Gradience 171
Subsective Constructional Gradience (SCG) 171
Pseudoclefts 172
Constructions involving subject-auxiliary inversion (SAI) 173
Verb + NP and Verb + NP + NP constructions 173
Transitive constructions 174
The possessive construction 175
Complex prepositions 176
The passive gradient 178
Intersective Constructional Gradience (ICG) 180
Genitival constructions 180
Taylor's possessive constructions gradient 181
Coordination and subordination 182
Verb complementation: monotransitive, ditransitive, and complex transitive constructions 185
Complements and adjuncts 186
Syntactic blends and fusions 187
Constructional Gradience in grammar 192
Vague meaning 193
'Too much' meaning 194
'Too little' meaning 195
A purely syntactic approach to constructions 196
Formalization 199
Modelling Syntactic Gradience 201
Introduction 201
Vagueness, representations, and gradience 202
Eliminating vagueness by looking more closely: apparent sameness 203
Eliminating vagueness by looking more closely: apparent differences 203
Determinatives: a further case of apparent sameness? 204
A formalization of Subsective Gradience and Intersective Gradience 205
Subsective Gradience 205
Intersective Gradience 207
Some applications 208
SG in the adjective class 209
IG between verbs and nouns: the English gerund 210
IG between verbs and adjectives 214
IG between adjectives and prepositions: near and like 215
Complementizers and prepositions 219
Constructions: V + NP + [to-infinitive] vs. V + [NP + to-infinitive] 222
The present account vs. the Aristotelian and 'Sorites' models 223
The syntactic properties of the categories 225
How can we be sure to identify all the relevant properties, and are all the properties equally important? 225
How can we know that a particular property is an independent one and not merely a variant of an already identified property? 227
Is it indeed the case that the syntactic properties that characterize a particular form class are unique to that class? 227
Is it true that an element belonging to a particular class can converge on at most one other word class in any one syntactic configuration? 228
'True hybridity' 228
The nature of grammatical categories 234
The contiguity of grammatical categories 235
Conclusion 241
References 243
Index 265
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