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Modality and Its Learner Variety in Japanese

by Razaul Faquire (Author)
©2012 Monographs XXII, 215 Pages

Summary

In this book modality and its learner variety in Japanese are investigated from the perspective of grammaticalization in the functional framework. It describes the grammatical system of modality in Japanese in terms of the form-function relationship within the scope of a framework based on the European school of modality. Accordingly, it deals with the modal system and its constituents in Japanese, accommodating all the grammatical means of modariti (modality) in the Nihongo bunpou (Japanese grammar system). This study also casts light on the learner variety of modality, which is comprised of two core systems, epistemic and deontic, both of which are evident at the utterance level and the morphosyntactic level. The learner variety of modality elucidated here is presented as a proto-modality, which is viewed as a system in its own right rather than as an improvised or distorted version of the native modal system in Japanese.

Details

Pages
XXII, 215
Publication Year
2012
ISBN (PDF)
9783035302936
ISBN (Softcover)
9783034301039
DOI
10.3726/978-3-0353-0293-6
Language
English
Publication date
2012 (May)
Keywords
Functional linguistic approach concept of learner variety Nihongo bunpou various formulations of modality in linguistics process of grammaticalisation notion of modality
Published
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2012. XXII, 215 pp., num. tables and graphs

Biographical notes

Razaul Faquire (Author)

A.B.M. Razaul Karim Faquire was awarded his PhD by the University of Dhaka. He is an Associate Professor of Japanese at the Institute of Modern Languages, University of Dhaka. His research interests include general linguistics, language contact and language acquisition.

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