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Record Nr.

UNINA9910484233903321

Autore

Mitrović Moreno

Titolo

Superparticles : a microsemantic theory, typology, and history of logical atoms / / Moreno Mitrović

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

94-024-2050-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIX, 288 p. 104 illus.)

Collana

Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory ; ; Volume 98

Disciplina

415.7

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Particles

Language and languages - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Construction -- Chapter 3. Interpretation -- Chapter 4. Grammaticalisation -- Chapter 5. Conclusion -- Historical Texts -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

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 such tiny 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.