The Syncategoremata in the Thirteenth Century

In the 13th-century, the syncategoremata remain what they were previously: words which, because of their lack of semantic autonomy, depend upon others - namely, the categoremata. But the framework within which they are studied changed. If being semantically dependent is still their main lexical feature, this dependence has to be considered insofar as it pertains to a compositional approach. By determining the term which "completes" them, the syncategoremes modify the proposition's truth conditions; the different modifications they can affect according to their syntactic environment constitute the lens through which they are mainly studied. The impacts they can have each correspond to a propositional configuration, usually figured via a type sentence - a sophisma. The collection of sophismata matches the list of the syncategoremes' features, that is to say, a list of problems analyzed within a formal semantics of natural language. 1 Appendix, 33 References. Adapted from the source document