Guo Lijun
Post-Doctoral Research Mobile Station of Foreign Language and Literature of the Heilongjiang University; Sun Yat-sen University
Abstract. Russian linguists E. E. Mikhelevich, A. T. Krivonosov, N. A. Toropova distinguish a special type of particles among the unchangeable parts of speech - logical particles and identify their distinctive features: logical particles are unstressed, they are subsidiary linguistic means of sentence’s nuclear element. Logical particles are lexical markers of sentence’s rheme representing the internal logical relations between the concepts of assertion and presupposition. Their semantic essence involves the expression of functional dependence between the nuclear elements and presupposition and other concepts which are characterized by oppositional relations with nuclear elements. The paper analyzes semantic functions of logical particles and argues that presupposition is an integral element of logical particles’ semantics. Relying on the findings the author provides further analysis of antagonists’ presupposition and presupposition of expectation.
Key words and phrases: логическая частица, пресуппозиция, ассерция, фокус, противочлен, logical particle, presupposition, assertion, focus, counter-part
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