『Fuzzy Grammar: A Reader』OUP

執筆陣は豪華絢爛。アリストテレス、ウィトゲンシュタイン、イエスペルセンからラネカー、レイコフ、ニューメイヤー*1 まで。

『Fuzzy Grammar: A Reader』Paperback, 526pp, Oxford University Press, 2004
Edited by Bas Aarts, David Denison, Evelien Keizer and Gergana Popova
ISBN:0199262578, $35.00

Description:
This book brings together classic and recent papers in the philosophical and linguistic analysis of fuzzy grammar, gradience in meaning, word classes, and syntax. Issues such as how many grains make a heap, when a puddle becomes a pond, and so forth, have occupied thinkers since Aristotle and over the last two decades been the subject of increasing interest among linguists as well as in fields such as artificial intelligence and computational linguistics. The work is designed to be of use to students in all these fields. It has a substantial introduction, is divided into thematic parts, contains annotated sections of further reading, and is fully indexed.

Review:
"Certainly worth reading...interesting, stimulating, and highly relevant in the current state of affairs in linguistics."--Galit W. Sassoon, Linguist List 15.3335
http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/linguist/issues/15/15-3335.html


Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction: The Nature of Grammatical Categories and their Representation　1

Part.I　Philosophical Background　29
1　Categories　31
2　Concepts　33
3　Vagueness　35
4　Family Resemblances　41
5　The Phenomena of Vagueness　45

Part.II　Categories in Cognition　65

6　The Boundaries of Words and their Meanings　67
7　Principles of Categorization　91
8　Categorizaton, Fuzziness, and Family Resemblances　109
9　Discreteness　131
10　The Importance of Categorization　139

Pt.III　Categories in Grammar　179
11　Parts of Speech　181
12　English Word Classes　191
13　A Notional Approach to the Parts of Speech　213
14　Syntactic Categories and Notional Features　225
15　Bounded Regions　239
16　The Discourse Basis for Lexical Categories in Universal Grammar　247
17　Grammatical Categories　293

Pt.IV　Gradience in Grammar　309
18　Gradience　311
19　Degrees of Grammaticalness　321
20　Descriptive Statement and Serial Relationship　327
21　On the Analysis of Linguistic Vagueness　341
22　Nouniness　351
23　The Coordination-Subordination Gradient　423
24　The Nature of Graded Judgments　431

Pt.V　Criticisms and Responses　447
25　Description of Language Design　449
26　'Prototypes Save'　461
27　Fuzziness and Categorization　479
28　The Discrete Nature of Syntactic Categories: 
　Against a Prototype-based Account　487

Subject Index　511
Author Index　519
Language Index　525

*1:論文多数。Frederick J. Newmeyer
・‘Why Typology Doesn’t Matter to Linguistic Theory’. In Grant Goodall, M. Schulte-Nafeh, and Vida Samiian (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Meeting of the Western Conference on Linguistics. Fresno: Department of Linguistics, California State University at Fresno, pp. 334-352. 2000
・‘Grammar is Grammar and Usage is Usage’. Language 79, 682-707. 2003
・近著は『Language Form and Language Function』MIT Press。
・近刊はTypology and Generative Syntax. OUP

"Newmeyer is surely the most authoritative and fairest voice urging formalist and functionalist linguists to attend to one another's work. This book makes a strong case that the two sides do have things to say to one another, and I hope each will heed Newmeyer's injunction to listen to the other."
-- Stephen R. Anderson, Yale University