New Benjamins title: Narrog-Modality in Japanese

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Modality in Japanese
The layered structure of the clause and hierarchies of functional categories
  Heiko Narrog  Tohoku University

Studies in Language Companion Series 109

2009. xxii, 277 pp.
Hardbound  978 90 272 0576 6 / EUR 105.00 / USD 158.00

Hierarchical clause structure is an important feature of most 
theories of grammar. While it has been an indispensable part of 
formal syntactic theories, functional theories have more recently 
discovered for themselves a 'layered structure of the clause'. A 
major focus of the current discussion on semanto-syntactic clause 
structure is the hierarchical ordering of grammatical categories such 
as tense, aspect and modality. However, there are very few empirical 
studies yet to provide systematic evidence for presumably universal 
hierarchical structures. 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. Also provided is an extensive description of 
the expression of modality and related categories in Modern Japanese.
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Table of contents

Acknowledgements  xiii
List of abbreviations  xv
Morpheme boundary symbols  xvii
List of figures  xix
List of tables  xxixxii
Chapter 1. Introduction  13
Part I. Modality and the layered structure of the clause
Chapter 2. A brief outline of modality  720
Chapter 3. Modality in Japanese linguistics  2132
Chapter 4. The layered structure of the clause and hierarchies of 
functional categories  3348
Chapter 5. Modality in theories of the layered structure of the 
clause and hierarchies of functional categories  4954
Chapter 6. Modality and the layered structure of the clause in 
Japanese linguistics  5558
Chapter 7. Summary  5960
Part II. The modal markers of Japanese: A short description
Chapter 8. Criteria for the description of modality  6366
Chapter 9. Formal means of expression  an overview  6777
Chapter 10. The modal categories  79131
Part III. Categories on the periphery of modality
Chapter 11. Clausal moods  135158
Chapter 12. Illocutionary modulation  159
Chapter 13. 'Modality of explanation'  161
Part IV. Modality and the hierarchy of functional categories: An 
empirical study
Chapter 14. Data and methods  165175
Chapter 15. Modality embedding modality (double modality)  177189
Chapter 16. Modality and tense, aspect, negation  191209
Chapter 17. Modality and higher categories  211216
Chapter 18. Modality embedded in adverbial clauses  217223
Chapter 19. Conclusion  225244
Part V. Collocations
Chapter 20. Collocations  247253
References  255274
Index  275277




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