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Modality and Its Learner Variety in Japanese

Modality and Its Learner Variety in Japanese

Faquire, Razaul
Davis, Graeme
Bernhardt, Karl

Paperback

Series: Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics, Book 29

Miscellaneous LanguagesGrammar & StyleGeneral Education

ISBN10: 3034301030
ISBN13: 9783034301039
Publisher: Peter Lang Uk
Published: Apr 14 2012
Pages: 215
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In this book modality and its learner variety in Japanese are investigated from the perspective of grammaticalization in the functional framework. It describes the grammatical system of modality in Japanese in terms of the form-function relationship within the scope of a framework based on the European school of modality. Accordingly, it deals with the modal system and its constituents in Japanese, accommodating all the grammatical means of modariti (modality) in the Nihongo bunpou (Japanese grammar system). This study also casts light on the learner variety of modality, which is comprised of two core systems, epistemic and deontic, both of which are evident at the utterance level and the morphosyntactic level. The learner variety of modality elucidated here is presented as a proto-modality, which is viewed as a system in its own right rather than as an improvised or distorted version of the native modal system in Japanese.

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