17.1557, Confs: Japanese Ling/London, UK

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LINGUIST List: Vol-17-1557. Sun May 21 2006. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 17.1557, Confs: Japanese Ling/London, UK

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Date: 19-May-2006
From: barbara pizziconi < bp3 at soas.ac.uk >
Subject: Revisiting Japanese Modality 

	
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Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 16:35:52
From: barbara pizziconi < bp3 at soas.ac.uk >
Subject: Revisiting Japanese Modality 
 



Revisiting Japanese Modality 

Date: 24-Jun-2006 - 25-Jun-2006 
Location: London, United Kingdom 
Contact: barbara pizziconi 
Contact Email: bp3 at soas.ac.uk 
Meeting URL: http://mercury.soas.ac.uk/users/lm5/Japanese_Modality_Conference.htm 

Linguistic Field(s): Discipline of Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): Japanese (jpn)

Meeting Description: 

The purpose of this international conference is to revisit the notion of modality and to explore how this universal conceptual category is realized in the specific linguistic devices available to the Japanese language. Papers are invited on any aspect of Modality: from epistemic modality to tense,  deontic modality to politeness; within a linguistics or applied linguistics framework. 

Dear colleagues,
this is a reminder that early registration for the international conference ''Revisiting Japanese Modality'' ends on 31 May 2006. 

The programme and registration details are available at: http://mercury.soas.ac.uk/users/lm5/Japanese_Modality_Conference.htm
 
Looking forward to meeting you there,
Barbara Pizziconi
SOAS, University of London





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