A syntax-based approach to the language of causality in Thomas Aquinas : the case of principium and causa (Summa Contra Gentiles, books I-II) : explorative study and first results
Despite being well-studied with respect to his philosophical and theological production, there is still not a robust scholarship dealing, from a linguistic viewpoint, with the writings of Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274). This dissertation aims at establishing this new line of research by proposing a case-study of syntax-based analysis of the lemmas principium and causa, which are relevant for the Thomistic language of causality. The case-study, conducted by means of the PML Tree Queries language, is based on the annotation of a corpus of sentences corresponding to the first two books of the Summa Contra Gentiles, which are part of the Index Thomisticus Treebank Project (IT-TB), developed in continuity with the Index Thomisticus (Index) created last century by Roberto Busa SJ. Drawn up in the context of Busaâs theory regarding the existence of âtwo philosophiesâ in the mind of a philosopher, the fundamental aim of the research is to cast light on Aquinas' mind according with a threefold structure: a) investigating the connection between what we already know about the meaning of these lemmas and their syntax-semantic relation with the verbal heads to which they are related as syntactic arguments in accordance
Testori, Marinella
A syntax-based approach to the language of causality in Thomas Aquinas : the case of principium and causa (Summa Contra Gentiles, books I-II) : explorative study and first results. Despite being well-studied with respect to his philosophical and theological production, there is still not a robust scholarship dealing, from a linguistic viewpoint, with the writings of Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274). This dissertation aims at establishing this new line of research by proposing a case-study of syntax-based analysis of the lemmas principium and causa, which are relevant for the Thomistic language of causality. The case-study, conducted by means of the PML Tree Queries language, is based on the annotation of a corpus of sentences corresponding to the first two books of the Summa Contra Gentiles, which are part of the Index Thomisticus Treebank Project (IT-TB), developed in continuity with the Index Thomisticus (Index) created last century by Roberto Busa SJ. Drawn up in the context of Busaâs theory regarding the existence of âtwo philosophiesâ in the mind of a philosopher, the fundamental aim of the research is to cast light on Aquinas' mind according with a threefold structure: a) investigating the connection between what we already know about the meaning of these lemmas and their syntax-semantic relation with the verbal heads to which they are related as syntactic arguments in accordance
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