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OverviewIn this innovative study, Professor Narahara offers a multi-disciplinary description of the Japanese copula, revealing it to be at the interface of morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics. Most striking is her discovery of the copula's function to express the speaker's knowledge or ignorance about the proposition of the sentence. She provides a new morphological feature analysis to derive this modal function and further proposes a series of unified accounts for a wide range of discourse phenomena. Full Product DetailsAuthor: T. NaraharaPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Edition: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002 Weight: 0.361kg ISBN: 9781349428991ISBN 10: 134942899 Pages: 219 Publication Date: 01 January 2002 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements PART ONE: CONCEPT OF COPULA Introduction to Japanese Copula Copula as a Universal Notion PART TWO: FORMS AND FUNCTIONS: THE VIEW FROM FEATURE MORPHOLOGY Grammatical Feature Representation Against Overt Present Tense Feature Morphology Categorial Marking Analysis PART THREE: EVOLUTION OF INFLECTIONAL MORPHOLOGY Categorial Forms in a Diachronic Perspective Forms and Functions of Modern Copula Da Discourse Functions of Da and Zyanai IndexReviews'...a wonderful and innovative study.' - Professor Ken-ichi Takami, Tokyo Metropolitan University 'I would strongly recommend [this book] to anyone who is interested in knowing more about this small grammatical creature in Japanese.' - Seiki Ayano, Journal of Linguistics Author InformationTOMIKO NARAHARA is Assistant Professor of Japanese Language and Linguistics and Director of the Japanese Language Programme at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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