Publications

Publication details [#10448]

Aoki, Haruo. 1986. Evidentials in Japanese. In Chafe, Wallace L. and Johanna Nichols, eds. Evidentiality: The linguistic coding of epistemology. Ablex Publishing Company. pp. 223–238.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

evidential | politeness | verb phrase

Language as a subject

Japanese

Annotation

On four types of evidentials occurring in the verb phrase, on evidential adverbial phrases, on evidentials and politeness, and on the historical development of evidentiality in Japanese.