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The Japanese Copula. Forms and Functions.
Tomiko Narahara
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Description for The Japanese Copula. Forms and Functions.
Paperback. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFK; D. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
229
Condition
New
Number of Pages
219
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349428991
SKU
V9781349428991
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99-15
About Tomiko Narahara
TOMIKO NARAHARA is Assistant Professor of Japanese Language and Linguistics and Director of the Japanese Language Programme at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Reviews for The Japanese Copula. Forms and Functions.
'...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