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.

Autorentext
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.

Inhalt
Notes on Contributors Preface Introduction; B.Pizziconi & M.Kizu PART I: CONTEXTUALIZING AND DEFINING JAPANESE MODALITY Modality, Modaritii and Predication The Story of Modality in Japan; H.Narrog Modality from a Japanese Perspective; T.Masuoka West Meets East: A Kindaichian Approach to Subjective Modality; L.Larm What Is and Is Not Language-Specific About the Japanese Modal System? - A Comparative and Historical Perspective; T.Moriya & K.Horie PART II: JAPANESE MODALITY FROM SEMANTIC AND SYNTACTIC PERSPECTIVE Tense and Settledness in Japanese Conditionals; S.Arita Conditional Modality: Two Types of Modal Auxiliaries in Japanese; Y.Takubo Japanese Modals and the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface; M.Kizu PART III: JAPANESE MODALITY IN DISCOURSE On Noun Phrases as Minor Sentences in Japanese; T.Shin'ya The Acquisition of Japanese Modality During the Study Abroad; S.Watanabe & N.Iwasaki The Interactional Consequences of Epistemic Indexicality - Some Thoughts on the Epistemic Marker -Kamoshirenai; B.Pizziconi Index