Japanese Modality : Exploring its Scope and Interpretation - B. Pizziconi

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Japanese Modality

Exploring its Scope and Interpretation

By: B. Pizziconi (Editor), M. Kizu (Editor)

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Hardcover | 15 October 2009 | Edition Number 1

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Notes on Contributors Preface Introduction; B.Pizziconi & M.Kizu PART I: CONTEXTUALIZING AND DEFINING JAPANESE MODALITY Modality, Modaritii and Predication - The Story of Modality in Japan; H.Narrog Modality from a Japanese Perspective; T.Masuoka West Meets East: A Kindaichian Approach to Subjective Modality; L.Larm What Is and Is Not Language-Specific About the Japanese Modal System? - A Comparative and Historical Perspective; T.Moriya & K.Horie PART II: JAPANESE MODALITY FROM SEMANTIC AND SYNTACTIC PERSPECTIVE Tense and Settledness in Japanese Conditionals; S.Arita Conditional Modality: Two Types of Modal Auxiliaries in Japanese; Y.Takubo Japanese Modals and the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface; M.Kizu PART III: JAPANESE MODALITY IN DISCOURSE On Noun Phrases as Minor Sentences in Japanese; T.Shin'ya The Acquisition of Japanese Modality During the Study Abroad; S.Watanabe & N.Iwasaki The Interactional Consequences of Epistemic Indexicality - Some Thoughts on the Epistemic Marker -Kamoshirenai; B.Pizziconi Index

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List of Figures	p. vii
List of Tables	p. viii
Preface	p. ix
Notes on the Contributors	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Contextualizing and Defining Japanese Modality
Modality, Modariti and Predication - the Story of Modality in Japan	p. 9
Modality from a Japanese Perspective	p. 36
West meets East: a Kindaichian Approach to Subjective Modality	p. 56
What Is and Is not Language-Specific about the Japanese Modal System? A Comparative and Historical Perspective	p. 87
Japanese Modality from Semantic and Syntactic Perspectives
Tense and Settledness in Japanese Conditionals	p. 117
Conditional Modality: Two Types of Modal Auxiliaries in Japanese	p. 150
Japanese Modals at the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface	p. 183
Japanese Modality in Discourse
On the Modality of Noun Phrases as Minor Sentences in Japanese	p. 207
The Acquisition of Japanese Modality during Study Abroad	p. 231
The Interactional Consequences of Epistemic Indexicality - Some Thoughts on the Epistemic	p. 259
Subject Index	p. 287
Language Index	p. 295
Name Index	p. 296
Grammatical Form Index	p. 299
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