The Japanese Copula: Forms and Functions

Narahara, T.

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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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2002-01-01

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349428991

DOI: 10.1057/9780230504530

Dimensions: 235cm x155cm

Pages: 219