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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.
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.
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