Modality and Its Learner Variety in Japanese (Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics, Band 29) - Softcover

Faquire, Razaul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3034301030 ISBN 13: 9783034301039

Verlag: Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

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.

Über diesen Titel

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3034301030
• ISBN 13: 9783034301039
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 215
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: preigu GmbH & Co. KG; mail@preigu.de; ; Lengericher Landstr. 19; Osnabrück; Niedersachsen; 49078; Deutschland