Modality in Japanese

The layered structure of the clause and hierarchies of functional categories

Heiko Narrog | Tohoku University

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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.

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 109] 2009. xxii, 277 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.109

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements | p. xiii

List of abbreviations | p. xv

Morpheme boundary symbols | p. xvii

List of figures | p. xix

List of tables | pp. xxi–xxii

Chapter 1. Introduction | pp. 1–3

Part I. Modality and the layered structure of the clause

Chapter 2. A brief outline of modality | pp. 7–20

Chapter 3. Modality in Japanese linguistics | pp. 21–32

Chapter 4. The layered structure of the clause and hierarchies of functional categories | pp. 33–48

Chapter 5. Modality in theories of the layered structure of the clause and hierarchies of functional categories | pp. 49–54

Chapter 6. Modality and the layered structure of the clause in Japanese linguistics | pp. 55–58

Chapter 7. Summary | pp. 59–60

Part II. The modal markers of Japanese: A short description

Chapter 8. Criteria for the description of modality | pp. 63–66

Chapter 9. Formal means of expression – an overview | pp. 67–77

Chapter 10. The modal categories | pp. 79–131

Part III. Categories on the periphery of modality

Chapter 11. Clausal moods | pp. 135–158

Chapter 12. Illocutionary modulation | p. 159

Chapter 13. ‘Modality of explanation’ | p. 161

Part IV. Modality and the hierarchy of functional categories: An empirical study

Chapter 14. Data and methods | pp. 165–175

Chapter 15. Modality embedding modality (double modality) | pp. 177–189

Chapter 16. Modality and tense, aspect, negation | pp. 191–209

Chapter 17. Modality and higher categories | pp. 211–216

Chapter 18. Modality embedded in adverbial clauses | pp. 217–223

Chapter 19. Conclusion | pp. 225–244

Part V. Collocations

Chapter 20. Collocations | pp. 247–253

Index | pp. 275–277

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