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Not a negation? A logico-philosophical perspective on the Ugaritic particles lā/ ’al
Author/s | Barés Gómez, Cristina
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Department | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Filosofía y Lógica y Filosofía de la Ciencia |
Publication Date | 2022 |
Deposit Date | 2022-10-11 |
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Abstract | The negative particles lā/ ’al in Ugaritic change from positive to negative in modal contexts, conditional, questions, disjunctions, etc. They have usually been studied from a Semitic and linguistic points of view. On the ... The negative particles lā/ ’al in Ugaritic change from positive to negative in modal contexts, conditional, questions, disjunctions, etc. They have usually been studied from a Semitic and linguistic points of view. On the basis of their occurrence in Ugaritic texts, we pretend to explain their uncommon behaviour from a philosophical and logico-semantic perspective. Is it possible to translate this linguistic structure in our Modern languages? Starting from a general view of their use in Ugaritic language, we claim that this phenomenon can be more clearly understood in relation to modality. We interpret these negation as a negative evidential paradigm and we explain how they change in different contexts. Methodologically, we make use of formal tools of Dynamic Epistemic Logic in order to provide a more fine-grained understanding of these negations, and their dynamics. |
Citation | Barés Gómez, C. y Fontaine, M. (2022). Not a negation? A logico-philosophical perspective on the Ugaritic particles lā/ ’al. Topoi, 14 (3), 515-526. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-021-09755-0. |
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