Gradience in Grammar - Gisbert Fanselow, Caroline Fery, Matthias Schlesewsky, Ralf Vogel

This book represents the state of the art in the study of gradience in grammar: the degree to which utterances are acceptable or grammatical, and the relationship between acceptability and grammaticality. Parts II and III examine issues in phonology and syntax. Part I seeks to clarify the nature of gradience from the perspectives of phonology, generative syntax, psycholinguistics, and sociolinguistics.

The data discussed comes from a wide range of languages and dialects, and includes tone and stress patterns, word orde Part IV considers long movement from different methodological perspectives.