Buchdetails
Format
E-Book
Seiten
526
Sprache
Englisch
Veröffentlicht
Jan 10, 2010
Verlag
Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN-10
1280838302
ISBN-13
9781280838309
Beschreibung
This work brings together classic and recent papers in the philosophical and linguistic analysis of fuzzy grammar, of 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, since the 1980s, have 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.