Thetics and categoricals

Thetics and categoricals / edited by Werner Abraham, Elisabeth Leiss, Yasuhiro Fujinawa.

"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 textua...

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Corporate Author: Societas Linguistica Europaea. Meeting (Author)
Other Authors: Abraham, Werner (Editor), Leiss, Elisabeth (Editor), Fujinawa, Yasuhiro (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020]
Series:Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 262.
Subjects:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Grammatical categories > Congresses.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Sentences > Congresses.
Rhetoric > Congresses.
Language and logic > Congresses.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Grammatical categories
Grammar, Comparative and general > Sentences
Language and logic
Rhetoric
Conference papers and proceedings
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Table of Contents:
  • What this volume is about / Werner Abraham
  • Categorical versus thetic sentences in the universal grammar of realism / Elisabeth Leiss
  • Are theticity and sentence-focus encoded grammatical categories of Dutch? / Thomas Belligh
  • Presentational and related constructions in Norwegian with reference to German / Lars Hellan and Dorothee Beermann
  • Copulas and information structure in Tanti Dargwa / Nina Sumbatova
  • Infinitive constructions and theticity in German / Yukari Isaka
  • Strong and weak nominal reference in thetic and categorical sentences : sampling German and Chinese / Meng-Chen Lee
  • Adjectives and mode of expression : psych-adjectives in attributive and predicative usage and implications for the thetic/categorical discussion / Yoshiyuki Muroi
  • Unaccusativity and theticity / Patricia Irwin
  • From philosophical logic to linguistics : the architecture of information autonomy : categoricals vs. thetics revisited / Werner Abraham
  • Pseudocategorical or purely thetic? A contrastive case study of how thetic statements are expressed in Japanese, English, and German / Yasuhiro Fujinawa
  • The thetic/categorical distinction as difference in common ground update : with application to Biblical Hebrew / Daniel J. Wilson
  • B-grade subjects and theticity / Shin Tanaka
  • Perception description, report and thetic statements : roles of sentence-final particles in Japanese and modal particles in German / Junji Okamoto.

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