Superparticles von Moreno Mitrović | A Microsemantic Theory, Typology, and History of Logical Atoms | ISBN 9789402420524

Superparticles

A Microsemantic Theory, Typology, and History of Logical Atoms

von Moreno Mitrović
Buchcover Superparticles | Moreno Mitrović | EAN 9789402420524 | ISBN 94-024-2052-5 | ISBN 978-94-024-2052-4

Superparticles

A Microsemantic Theory, Typology, and History of Logical Atoms

von Moreno Mitrović

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.