31.2673, Books: Thetics and Categoricals: Abraham, Leiss, Fujinawa (eds.)

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Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 14:29:56
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Thetics and Categoricals: Abraham, Leiss, Fujinawa (eds.)

 


Title: Thetics and Categoricals 
Series Title: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 262  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/la.262 


Editor: Werner Abraham
Editor: Elisabeth Leiss
Editor: Yasuhiro Fujinawa

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027260871 Pages: 390 Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027260871 Pages: 390 Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027260871 Pages: 390 Price: Europe EURO 99.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027207401 Pages: 390 Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027207401 Pages: 390 Price: U.K. £ 83.00
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Abstract:

"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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Semantics
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)

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