Description
| Summary: | "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"--
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| Item Description: | "The papers collected in this volume were presented at the workshop Thetics and Categoricals at the 51st Annual Meeting of Societas Linguistica Europaea in Tallinn, Estonia, on 30 August, 2018"--Preface |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 390 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| ISBN: | 9789027260871
9027260877 |
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| ISSN: | 0166-0829 ; |
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| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 28, 2020). |
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