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In:Thetics and Categoricals
Edited by Werner Abraham, Elisabeth Leiss and Yasuhiro Fujinawa
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 262] 2020
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Published online: 22 July 2020
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Article outline
  • Leading ideas and main concepts
  • Part 1.Logic and philosophical background
  • Part 2.Impersonal constructions and types of copula
  • Part 3.From logic content to linguistic form
  • Part 4.The logic-linguistics relation across languages
  • Part 5.Lexical links to attitudinality
  • Notes
  • References
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