The Japanese Copula Forms and Functions
The Japanese Copula Forms and Functions by T. Narahara, published by Palgrave Macmillan UK on August 21, 2002, is a scholarly work comprising 219 pages in English. This study presents a multi-disciplinary examination of the Japanese copula, exploring its roles at the intersection of morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. The author reveals the copula’s unique function in expressing the speaker’s knowledge or ignorance regarding the propositions within sentences.
Readers will find a detailed morphological feature analysis that supports the copula’s modal function, along with unified accounts for various discourse phenomena. This book delves into topics such as grammar, linguistics, and literary criticism, making it a valuable resource for those interested in the complexities of language structure and usage. The edition’s dimensions are 8.5 inches in height and 5.5 inches in length, weighing approximately 0.93 pounds.
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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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