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The Japanese Copula: Forms and Functions

The Japanese Copula: Forms and Functions

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JapaneseLiterary CriticismLinguistics

ISBN10: 0333969200
ISBN13: 9780333969205
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Aug 21 2002
Pages: 219
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.30 Depth: 8.38
Language: English
In 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.

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