{"product_id":"9780333969205","title":"The Japanese Copula: Forms and Functions","description":"\u003ch1\u003eThe Japanese Copula: Forms and Functions\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eNarahara, T.\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2002-08-21\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9780333969205\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1057\/9780230504530\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 216cm x140cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 219\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Palgrave Macmillan UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47679413649548,"sku":"9780333969205","price":49.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9780333969205.jpg?v=1776571953","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9780333969205","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}