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PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; Fuzzy Grammar: the nature of grammaticalcategories and their representation; PART 1; Philosophical background; 1.Aristotle on the categories; 2. Frege on concepts; 3. Vagueness; 4. Familyresemblances; 5. The phenomena of vagueness; PART 2; Categories in cognition;6. The boundaries of words and their meanings; 7. Principles ofcategorization; 8. Jackendoff on categorisation, fuzziness and familyresemblances; 9. Discreteness; 10. The importance of categorisation; PART 3;Categories in grammar; 11. Jespersen on the parts of speech; 12. English wordclasses; 13. A notional approach to the parts of speech; 14. Syntacticcategories and notional features; 15. Bounded regions; 16. The discoursebasis for lexical categories in Universal Grammar; 17. Grammaticalcategories; PART 4; Gradience in grammar; 18. Bolinger on gradience; 19.Degrees of grammaticalness; 20. Descriptive statement and serialrelationship; 21. On the analysis of linguistic vagueness; 22. Nouniness; 23.The coordination-subordination gradient; 24. The nature of graded judgments;PART 5; Criticisms and responses; 25. Description of language design; 26.Prototypes save; 27. Fuzziness and categorization; 28. The discrete nature ofsyntactic categories: against a prototype-based account