Overview
- Provides a novel systematic approach to formal diachronic semantics, pragmatics and syntax
- Evaluates and analyses the historical trends of semantic, syntactic change not only across the Indo-European family but also in Japonic
- Explores and helps to understand diachronic implicational relations in the grammatical system of logical expressions encoded with identical morphemes
Part of the book series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (SNLT, volume 98)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book is all about the captivating ability that the human language has to express intricately logical (mathematical) meanings using tiny (microsemantic) morphemes as utilities. Languages mark meanings with identical inferences using identical particles and these particles thus creep up in a wide array of expressions. Because of their multi-tasking capacity to express seemingly disparate meanings, they are dubbed Superparticles. These particles are perfect windows into the interlock of several grammatical modules and the nature of the interaction of these modules through time. With a firm footing in the module where grammatical bones are built and assembled (narrow morpho-syntax), superparticles acquire varied interpretation (in the conceptual-intentional module – semantics) depending on the structure they fea- ture in. What is more, some of the interpretations these particles trigger are inferential and belong, under the standard account, to the realm of pragmatics. How can suchtiny particles, rarely exceeding a syllable of sound, have such powerful and over-arching effects across the inter-modular grammatical space? This is the Platonic background against which this book is set.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Superparticles
Book Subtitle: A Microsemantic Theory, Typology, and History of Logical Atoms
Authors: Moreno Mitrović
Series Title: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-2050-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-024-2049-4Published: 09 December 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-2052-4Published: 10 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-94-024-2050-0Published: 08 December 2020
Series ISSN: 0924-4670
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0358
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 288
Number of Illustrations: 104 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of Language, Syntax, Linguistics, general, Pragmatics, Morphology