Thetics and Categoricals
Editors
| Groningen University & University of Vienna
| University of Munich
| Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Thetics and Categoricals do not belong to the categories of German grammar. Thetics were introduced in logic as impersonal and broad focus constructions. They left profound and extensive traces in the logic of the late 19th century. For the class of thetic propositions, the criterion of textual exclusion plays the major role, i.e. the absence of any common grounds and of any anaphorism and background. In the foreground are sentences with subject inversion, subject suppression and detopicalization. These and only these are suitable for text beginnings, jokes, stage advertisements and solipsistic exclamatives, thus speech acts without communicative goals – free expressives in the true sense of the word. The contributions in this volume not only guide the reader through the history of philosophical logic and distributions of impersonals in contrast to Kantian categorical sentences, but also the correspondences in Japanese and Chinese which, in contrast to German and English, sport specific morphological markers for thetics as opposed to categoricals.
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 262] 2020. vii, 390 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
Preface
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2–10
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Part 1. Logic and philosophical background
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14–29
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14–29
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Part 2. Impersonal constructions
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34–140
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34–68
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70–103
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106–140
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Part 3. From logic content to linguistic form
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144–222
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144–153
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156–177
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180–197
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200–222
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Part 4. The logic-linguistics across languages
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226–333
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226–281
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284–309
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312–333
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Part 5. Lexical links to attitudinality
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338–385
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338–350
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352–385
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Index
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Index
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387
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Subjects
BIC Subject: CFK – Grammar, syntax
BISAC Subject: LAN009060 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax