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The Japanese Copula

Forms and Functions

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  • © 2002

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  1. Tomiko Narahara
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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. The Concept of the Copula

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction to the Japanese Copula

      • Tomiko Narahara
      Pages 3-14

    3. The Copula as a Universal Notion

      • Tomiko Narahara
      Pages 15-39

  3. Forms and Functions: The View from Feature Morphology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-41
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    2. Grammatical Feature Representation

      • Tomiko Narahara
      Pages 43-56

    3. Against Non-past Tense Morphology

      • Tomiko Narahara
      Pages 57-70

    4. Categorial Marking Analysis

      • Tomiko Narahara
      Pages 71-82

  4. Evolution of Inflectional Morphology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83
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    2. Verb Forms

      • Tomiko Narahara
      Pages 85-94

    3. Adjective Forms

      • Tomiko Narahara
      Pages 95-105

    4. Copula Forms

      • Tomiko Narahara
      Pages 106-129

  5. Forms and Functions of the Modern Copula

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131
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    2. De aru Copula

      • Tomiko Narahara
      Pages 133-146

    3. Da

      • Tomiko Narahara
      Pages 147-180

    4. Discourse Functions of da and zyanai

      • Tomiko Narahara
      Pages 181-202

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 203-219
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About this book

In this innovative study, Professor Narahara offers a multi-disciplinary description of the Japanese copula, revealing it to be at the interface of morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics. Most striking is her discovery of the copula's function to express the speaker's knowledge or ignorance about the proposition of the sentence. She provides a new morphological feature analysis to derive this modal function and further proposes a series of unified accounts for a wide range of discourse phenomena.

Reviews

'...a wonderful and innovative study.' - Professor Ken-ichi Takami, Tokyo Metropolitan University

'I would strongly recommend [this book] to anyone who is interested in knowing more about this small grammatical creature in Japanese.' - Seiki Ayano, Journal of Linguistics

About the author

TOMIKO NARAHARA is Assistant Professor of Japanese Language and Linguistics and Director of the Japanese Language Programme at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Japanese Copula

  • Book Subtitle: Forms and Functions

  • Authors: Tomiko Narahara

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230504530

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Language & Linguistics Collection, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2002

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-96920-5Published: 21 August 2002

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-42899-1Published: 01 January 2002

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-50453-0Published: 21 August 2002

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 219

  • Topics: Grammar, Literature, general

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