Modality in Japanese
| Author | : Heiko Narrog |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9789027205766 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9027205760 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (760 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Modality in Japanese by : Heiko Narrog
Download or read book Modality in Japanese written by Heiko Narrog and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a systematic corpus-based study of the semantic and morphosyntactic interaction of modality with tense, aspect, negation, and modal markers embedded in subordinate clauses. The results are critically compared with extant theories of hierarchies of grammatical categories, including those in Functional Grammar, Role and Reference Grammar, and the Cartography of Syntactic Structures.
