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ISBN 10: 023057632X 

ISBN 13: 978-0230576322

Author: B. Pizziconi, M. Kizu

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.

Table of contents:

1. Notes on Contributors
2. Preface
3. Introduction

PART I: Contextualizing and Defining Japanese Modality
4. Modality, Modaritii and Predication – The Story of Modality in Japan
5. Modality from a Japanese Perspective
6. West Meets East: A Kindaichian Approach to Subjective Modality
7. What Is and Is Not Language-Specific About the Japanese Modal System? - A Comparative and Historical Perspective

PART II: Japanese Modality from Semantic and Syntactic Perspective
8. Tense and Settledness in Japanese Conditionals
9. Conditional Modality: Two Types of Modal Auxiliaries in Japanese
10. Japanese Modals and the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface

PART III: Japanese Modality in Discourse
11. On Noun Phrases as Minor Sentences in Japanese
12. The Acquisition of Japanese Modality During the Study Abroad
13. The Interactional Consequences of Epistemic Indexicality - Some Thoughts on the Epistemic Marker -Kamoshirenai
14. Index

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