Japanese modality
Subtitle: exploring its scope and interpretation
By: edited by Barbara Pizziconi and Mika Kizu.
Contributors: Pizziconi, Barbara, 1962-; Kizu, Mika, 1964-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780230576322
Subjects: Japanese language -- Modality
Description: "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"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Notes on Contributors * Preface * Introduction; title: B.Pizziconi&; title: M.Kizu * PART I: CONTEXTUALIZING AND DEFINING JAPANESE MODALITY * Modality, Modaritii and Predication The Story of Modality in Japan; title: H.Narrog * Modality from a Japanese Perspective; title: T.Masuoka * West Meets East: A Kindaichian Approach to Subjective Modality; title: L.Larm * What Is and Is Not Language-Specific About the Japanese Modal System? - A Comparative and Historical Perspective; title: T.Moriya&; title: K.Horie * PART II: JAPANESE MODALITY FROM SEMANTIC AND SYNTACTIC PERSPECTIVE * Tense and Settledness in Japanese Conditionals; title: S.Arita * Conditional Modality: Two Types of Modal Auxiliaries in Japanese; title: Y.Takubo * Japanese Modals and the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface; title: M.Kizu * PART III: JAPANESE MODALITY IN DISCOURSE * On Noun Phrases as Minor Sentences in Japanese; title: T.Shinya * The Acquisition of Japanese Modality During the Study Abroad; title: S.Watanabe& N.Iwasaki * The Interactional Consequences of Epistemic Indexicality - Some Thoughts on the Epistemic Marker -Kamoshirenai; title: B.Pizziconi * Index Notes on Contributors * Preface * Introduction; title: B.Pizziconi&; title: M.Kizu * PART I: CONTEXTUALIZING AND DEFINING JAPANESE MODALITY * Modality, Modaritii and Predication The Story of Modality in Japan; title: H.Narrog * Modality from a Japanese Perspective; title: T.Masuoka * West Meets East: A Kindaichian Approach to Subjective Modality; title: L.Larm * What Is and Is Not Language-Specific About the Japanese Modal System? - A Comparative and Historical Perspective; title: T.Moriya&; title: K.Horie * PART II: JAPANESE MODALITY FROM SEMANTIC AND SYNTACTIC PERSPECTIVE * Tense and Settledness in Japanese Conditionals; title: S.Arita * Conditional Modality: Two Types of Modal Auxiliaries in Japanese; title: Y.Takubo * Japanese Modals and the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface; title: M.Kizu * PART III: JAPANESE MODALITY IN DISCOURSE * On Noun Phrases as Minor Sentences in Japanese; title: T.Shinya * The Acquisition of Japanese Modality During the Study Abroad; title: S.Watanabe& N.Iwasaki * The Interactional Consequences of Epistemic Indexicality - Some Thoughts on the Epistemic Marker -Kamoshirenai; title: B.Pizziconi * Index.