Titlebook: Japanese Modality; Exploring its Scope Barbara Pizziconi (Senior Lecturer in Applied Japa Book 2009 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macm

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Introduction definition of ‘modality’, nor a consensus about its nature or its boundaries. Multiple terms adopted in the Japanese literature on the subject have possibly compounded the problem (Nakau 1999: 28, Kurotaki 2002: 87), referring to modality either through Sino-Japanese compounds like . or . (Kudoo 20

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Conditional Modality: Two Types of Modal Auxiliaries in Japaneseded into epistemic and evidential modality. Modal auxiliaries in Japanese that express propositional modality have traditionally been classified into two subclasses: epistemic modals that include . (‘will probably’.), . (‘should’), . (‘must’), . (‘it is possible’), henceforth the daroo-class modals,

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Japanese Modals at the Syntax-Pragmatics Interfacethe framework of generative grammar. While various modal expressions in Japanese are discussed throughout the volume, how such linguistic items should be analysed in syntactic structures is not taken up as a main topic in any other chapter. In order to fill in this gap, this chapter presents some of

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On the Modality of Noun Phrases as Minor Sentences in Japaneses. These will be labelled ‘minor sentences’, in contrast with full/complete sentences including a predicate. Japanese minor sentences include holophrase/one-word sentences like .! (‘Oh!’), elliptical sentences like . ...(‘That’s a little bit...’) and sentences ending with a noun like .! (‘Nice weath

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The Acquisition of Japanese Modality during Study Abroadof a study that examined the development of modal expressions among five students who studied in Japan for one academic year. The study compared the students’ use of modal expressions in oral interviews before and after their study-abroad experience. The recent advancement of foreign/second language

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