Japanese Modality
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Japanese Modality

Exploring its Scope and Interpretation

  1. English
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  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Japanese Modality

Exploring its Scope and Interpretation

About this book

This book explores the nature and scope of modality in Japanese. It contains a review of the history of Japanese modality studies, as well as theoretical and empirical research and is the first collection of studies on Japanese modality written in English and offers a stimulating contrast to existing studies on Western languages.

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Yes, you can access Japanese Modality by B. Pizziconi, M. Kizu, B. Pizziconi,M. Kizu in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Teaching Languages. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. List of Figures
  8. List of Tablesa
  9. Preface
  10. Notes on the Contributors
  11. Introduction
  12. Part I Contextualizing and Defining Japanese Modality
  13. 1 Modality, Modariti and Predication – the Story of Modality in Japan
  14. 2 Modality from a Japanese Perspective
  15. 3 West meets East: a Kindaichian Approach to Subjective Modality
  16. 4 What Is and Is not Language-Specific about the Japanese Modal System? A Comparative and Historical Perspective
  17. Part II Japanese Modality from Semantic and Syntactic Perspectives
  18. 5 Tense and Settledness in Japanese Conditionals
  19. 6 Conditional Modality: Two Types of Modal Auxiliaries in Japanese
  20. 7 Japanese Modals at the Syntax–Pragmatics Interface
  21. Part III Japanese Modality in Discourse
  22. 8 On the Modality of Noun Phrases as Minor Sentences in Japanese
  23. 9 The Acquisition of Japanese Modality during Study Abroad
  24. 10 The Interactional Consequences of Epistemic Indexicality – Some Thoughts on the Epistemic Marker -kamoshirenai
  25. Subject Index
  26. Language Index
  27. Name Index
  28. Grammatical Form Index