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Author:   B. Pizziconi ,  M. Kizu
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.525kg
ISBN:  

9780230576322

ISBN 10:   023057632
Pages:   300
Publication Date:   15 October 2009
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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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SETSUKO ARITA is Professor, Department of Japanese Language and Literature, Osaka Shoin Women's University, Japan KAORU HORIE is Professor of Linguistics, Graduate School of International Cultural Studies, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan NORIKO IWASAKI is Lecturer in Language Pedagogy, Department of Linguistics, SOAS, University of London, UK LARS LARM is Senior Lecturer in Japanese Linguistics, Centre for Languages and Literature, Japanese Studies, Lund University, Sweden TAKASHI MASUOKA is Professor, Department of Japanese Language and Culture, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies, Kobe, Japan TETSUHARU MORIYA is Professor of English Linguistics, School of Teacher Education, Kanazawa University, Japan HEIKO NARROG is Associate Professor, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan TERUKO SHIN'YA is Professor, J.F. Oberlin University, Tokyo, Japan. YUKINORI TAKUBO is Professor of Linguistics, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Japan SUWAKO WATANABE is Professor of Japanese,Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, USA.

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