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Part I Theoretical Background |
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Categorization in Linguistics |
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9 | (25) |
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9 | (2) |
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The classical philosophical tradition of categorization |
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11 | (3) |
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The linguistic tradition: early grammarians |
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14 | (3) |
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Twentieth-century approaches to linguistic categorization |
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Bloomfield and American structuralism |
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17 | (1) |
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18 | (5) |
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23 | (2) |
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25 | (1) |
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26 | (4) |
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Functional-typological and discourse typological linguistics |
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30 | (2) |
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Other frameworks: Phrase Structure Grammar and Construction Grammar |
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32 | (2) |
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34 | (46) |
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34 | (1) |
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Notions of gradience in ancient and modern philosophy |
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35 | (3) |
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The linguistic tradition: early grammarians |
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38 | (1) |
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Twentieth-century approaches to gradience |
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39 | (40) |
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The post-Bloomfieldians and Bolinger |
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39 | (3) |
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42 | (1) |
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43 | (9) |
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52 | (6) |
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Logical approaches to linguistic vagueness: the Prague school, Zadeh, and Ross |
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58 | (4) |
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62 | (6) |
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68 | (3) |
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Functional-typological and discourse-typological linguistics |
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71 | (1) |
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72 | (1) |
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73 | (2) |
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Other frameworks: Phrase Structure Grammar, Word Grammar, Lexical-Functional Grammar, and Construction Grammar |
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75 | (4) |
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79 | (1) |
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Gradience and Related Notions |
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80 | (15) |
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80 | (1) |
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80 | (3) |
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Syntactic mixing: mergers |
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83 | (3) |
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Multiple analysis and reanalysis |
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86 | (1) |
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Gradience and Prototype Theory |
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87 | (3) |
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Gradience and Markedness Theory |
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90 | (5) |
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Part II Gradience in English: Case Studies |
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95 | (104) |
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97 | (27) |
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97 | (14) |
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98 | (3) |
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101 | (4) |
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105 | (2) |
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107 | (4) |
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111 | (6) |
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117 | (4) |
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121 | (3) |
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124 | (40) |
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124 | (34) |
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Gradience between pre-head elements within noun phrases |
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124 | (1) |
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Determinatives and pronouns |
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125 | (1) |
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Determinatives and adjectives |
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125 | (2) |
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Determinatives and adverbs |
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127 | (2) |
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129 | (7) |
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136 | (2) |
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Gradience between verbs and other word classes |
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138 | (1) |
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138 | (5) |
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143 | (2) |
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Verbs and prepositions/conjunctions |
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145 | (4) |
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149 | (1) |
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150 | (1) |
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Adverbs, prepositions, and conjunctions |
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150 | (5) |
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155 | (1) |
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Adjectives and prepositions |
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156 | (2) |
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158 | (4) |
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Adjective phrases and noun phrases |
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158 | (2) |
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Adjective phrases and prepositional phrases |
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160 | (1) |
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Noun phrases and prepositional phrases |
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161 | (1) |
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162 | (2) |
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164 | (35) |
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164 | (1) |
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A brief history of the notion `construction' |
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164 | (6) |
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Structuralism and Transformational Grammar |
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164 | (2) |
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166 | (1) |
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167 | (1) |
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Constructionist frameworks |
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168 | (2) |
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The notion `construction' |
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170 | (1) |
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171 | (21) |
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Subsective Constructional Gradience (SCG) |
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171 | (1) |
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172 | (1) |
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Constructions involving subject-auxiliary inversion (SAI) |
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173 | (1) |
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Verb + NP and Verb + NP + NP constructions |
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173 | (1) |
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174 | (1) |
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The possessive construction |
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175 | (1) |
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176 | (2) |
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178 | (2) |
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Intersective Constructional Gradience (ICG) |
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180 | (1) |
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180 | (1) |
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Taylor's possessive constructions gradient |
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181 | (1) |
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Coordination and subordination |
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182 | (3) |
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Verb complementation: monotransitive, ditransitive, and complex transitive constructions |
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185 | (1) |
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186 | (1) |
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Syntactic blends and fusions |
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187 | (5) |
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Constructional Gradience in grammar |
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192 | (4) |
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193 | (1) |
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194 | (1) |
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195 | (1) |
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A purely syntactic approach to constructions |
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196 | (3) |
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199 | (44) |
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Modelling Syntactic Gradience |
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201 | (42) |
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201 | (1) |
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Vagueness, representations, and gradience |
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202 | (3) |
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Eliminating vagueness by looking more closely: apparent sameness |
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203 | (1) |
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Eliminating vagueness by looking more closely: apparent differences |
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203 | (1) |
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Determinatives: a further case of apparent sameness? |
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204 | (1) |
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A formalization of Subsective Gradience and Intersective Gradience |
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205 | (3) |
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205 | (2) |
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207 | (1) |
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208 | (15) |
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SG in the adjective class |
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209 | (1) |
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IG between verbs and nouns: the English gerund |
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210 | (4) |
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IG between verbs and adjectives |
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214 | (1) |
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IG between adjectives and prepositions: near and like |
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215 | (4) |
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Complementizers and prepositions |
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219 | (3) |
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Constructions: V + NP + [ to-infinitive] vs. V + [ NP + to-infinitive] |
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222 | (1) |
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The present account vs. the Aristotelian and `Sorites' models |
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223 | (2) |
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The syntactic properties of the categories |
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225 | (3) |
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How can we be sure to identify all the relevant properties, and are all the properties equally important? |
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225 | (2) |
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How can we know that a particular property is an independent one and not merely a variant of an already identified property? |
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227 | (1) |
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Is it indeed the case that the syntactic properties that characterize a particular form class are unique to that class? |
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227 | (1) |
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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? |
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228 | (1) |
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228 | (6) |
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The nature of grammatical categories |
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234 | (1) |
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The contiguity of grammatical categories |
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235 | (6) |
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241 | (2) |
| References |
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243 | (22) |
| Index |
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