The Japanese Copula Forms and Functions
Description
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.
Keywords
Language Arts & DisciplinesGrammar & PunctuationLiterary CriticismLinguisticsSyntaxHistorical & Comparative
2002Book
Author(s)Tomiko Narahara
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK
ISBN9780333969205
LanguageEnglish
