Japanese Modality

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Barbara Pizziconi, Mika Kizu

      Pages 1-6

3. Contextualizing and Defining Japanese Modality

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7

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   2. Modality, Modariti and Predication — the Story of Modality in Japan

      • Heiko Narrog

      Pages 9-35

   3. Modality from a Japanese Perspective

      • Takashi Masuoka

      Pages 36-55

   4. West meets East: a Kindaichian Approach to Subjective Modality

      • Lars Larm

      Pages 56-86

   5. What Is and Is not Language-Specific about the Japanese Modal System? A Comparative and Historical Perspective

      • Tetsuharu Moriya, Kaoru Horie

      Pages 87-114

4. Japanese Modality from Semantic and Syntactic Perspectives

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 115-115

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   2. Tense and Settledness in Japanese Conditionals

      • Setsuko Arita

      Pages 117-149

   3. Conditional Modality: Two Types of Modal Auxiliaries in Japanese

      • Yukinori Takubo

      Pages 150-182

   4. Japanese Modals at the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface

      • Mika Kizu

      Pages 183-204

5. Japanese Modality in Discourse

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 205-205

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   2. On the Modality of Noun Phrases as Minor Sentences in Japanese

      • Teruko Shin’ya

      Pages 207-230

   3. The Acquisition of Japanese Modality during Study Abroad

      • Suwako Watanabe, Noriko Iwasaki

      Pages 231-258

   4. The Interactional Consequences of Epistemic Indexicality — Some Thoughts on the Epistemic Marker -kamoshirenai

      • Barbara Pizziconi

      Pages 259-286

6. Back Matter

   Pages 287-300

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This book explores the nature and scope of modality in Japanese. It contains a review of the history of Japanese modality studies, as well as theoretical and empirical research and is the first collection of studies on Japanese modality written in English and offers a stimulating contrast to existing studies on Western languages.

• discourse
• English
• Japanese
• Japanisch

• Department of Japan and Korea School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK

  Barbara Pizziconi, Mika Kizu

SETSUKO ARITA is Professor, Department of Japanese Language and Literature, Osaka Shoin Women's University, Japan KAORU HORIE is Professor of Linguistics, Graduate School of International Cultural Studies, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan NORIKO IWASAKI is Lecturer in Language Pedagogy, Department of Linguistics, SOAS, University of London, UK LARS LARM is Senior Lecturer in Japanese Linguistics, Centre for Languages and Literature, Japanese Studies, Lund University, Sweden TAKASHI MASUOKA is Professor, Department of Japanese Language and Culture, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies, Kobe, Japan TETSUHARU MORIYA is Professor of English Linguistics, School of Teacher Education, Kanazawa University, Japan HEIKO NARROG is Associate Professor, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan TERUKO SHIN'YA is Professor, J.F. Oberlin University, Tokyo, Japan. YUKINORI TAKUBO is Professor of Linguistics, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Japan SUWAKO WATANABE is Professor of Japanese,Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, USA.

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