Download or read book How Categorical are Categories? written by Joanna Blaszczak and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-08-17 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the foundational question of category distinctions and challenges the traditional views from the modern theoretical and experimental perspective. Its focus is on the noun-verb, noun-adjective distinctions and categories occupying the "grey zone" between standard categories (e.g., nominalizations). This book will be of interest for researchers and students of linguistics and cognitive sciences.