Introduction

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part 1. Logic and philosophical background
6. Categorical versus thetic sentences in the Universal Grammar of Realism 13
7. Part 2. Impersonal constructions
8. Are theticity and sentence-focus encoded grammatical categories of Dutch? 33
9. Presentational and related constructions in Norwegian with reference to German 69
10. Copulas and information structure in Tanti Dargwa 105
11. Part 3. From logic content to linguistic form
12. Infinitive constructions and theticity in German 143
13. Strong and weak nominal reference in thetic and categorical sentences 155
14. Adjectives and mode of expression 179
15. Unaccusativity and theticity 199
16. Part 4. The logic-linguistics across languages
17. From philosophical logic to linguistics 225
18. Pseudocategorical or purely thetic? 283
19. The thetic/categorical distinction as difference in common ground update 311
20. Part 5. Lexical links to attitudinality
21. B-grade subjects and theticity 337
22. Perception description, report and thetic statements 351
23. Index 387