In:Thetics and Categoricals
Edited by Werner Abraham, Elisabeth Leiss and Yasuhiro Fujinawa
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 262] 2020
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 22 July 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.262.toc
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Table of contents
PrefaceVII
Introduction1
Part I.Logic and philosophical background
Categorical versus thetic sentences in the Universal Grammar of Realism13
Leiss Elisabeth
Part II.Impersonal constructions
Are theticity and sentence-focus encoded grammatical categories of Dutch?33
Thomas Belligh
Presentational and related constructions in Norwegian with reference to German69
Hellan Lars
Beermann Dorothee
Copulas and information structure in Tanti Dargwa105
Nina Sumbatova
Part III.From logic content to linguistic form
Infinitive constructions and theticity in German143
Yukari Isaka
Strong and weak nominal reference in thetic and categorical sentences: German and Chinese155
Meng-Chen Lee
Adjectives and mode of expression: Psych-adjectives in at-tributive and predicative usage and implications for the thetic/categorical discussion179
Yoshiyuki Muroi
Unaccusativity and theticity199
Patricia Irwin
Part IV.The logic-linguistics across languages
From philosophical logic to linguistics. The architecture of information autonomy: Categoricals vs. thetics revisited225
Werner Abraham
Pseudocategorical or purely thetic? A contrastive case study of how thetic statements are expressed in Japanese, English, and German283
Yasuhiro Fujinawa
The thetic/categorical distinction as difference in common ground update: Thetic constructions in Ancient Hebrew311
Daniel J. Wilson
Part V.Lexical links to attitudinality
B-grade subjects and theticity337
Shin Tanaka
Perception description, report and thetic statements: Roles of sentence-final particles in Japanese and modal particles in German351
Junji Okamoto
Index387
