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Prosententialism
A pro-sentence is a sentence where the subject pronoun has been dropped and therefore the sentence has a null subject. Overview Languages differ within this parameter, some languages such as Italian and Spanish have constant pro-drop, Finnish and Hebrew for example are partial pro-drop languages and Japanese and Tamil fall into the category of discourse or radical pro-drop languages. There are also languages such as English, German and Swedish that only allow pro-drop within very strict stylistic conditions. A pro-sentence is a kind of pro-form and is therefore anaphoric. In English, ''yes'', ''no'' and ''okay'' are common pro-sentences. In response to the question "Does Mars have two moons?", the sentence "Yes" can be understood to abbreviate "Mars does have two moons." Pro-sentences are sometimes seen as grammatical interjections, since they are capable of very limited syntactical relations. But they can also be classified as a distinct part of speech, given that (other) inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Grover
Dorothy Lucille Grover (9 September 1936 – 10 November 2017) was a New Zealand philosophy of logic, philosopher of logic who worked as a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She was known for prosententialism, a Redundancy theory of truth, deflationary theory of truth in which assertions of the truth of a proposition combine with the proposition to form a pro-sentence, a part of speech which refers to the proposition itself much like a pronoun refers to a noun. Life Grover was from the North Island of New Zealand, where she was born on 9 September 1936. After earning a diploma in 1958 from Wellington Teachers' College, she went to Victoria University of Wellington, where she earned a bachelor's degree in 1962 and a master's in 1966; her master's thesis was ''Entailment: a Study of System E, and a Critical Bibliography of the Subject in General''. She came to the University of Pittsburgh for doctoral study, where she worked on logic with Nuel Belnap and Alan Ross A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |