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Publication details [#56263]

Horie, Kaoru. 2012. The interactional origin of nominal predicate structure in Japanese: A comparative and historical pragmatic perspective. Journal of Pragmatics 44 (5) : 663–679.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communication | historical pragmatics | interactional sociolinguistics | motivation | nominalization

Language as a subject

Japanese

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

Drawing on Typological and Emancipatory Pragmatic grammar approaches, this paper proposes a comparative and historical pragmatic study of sentence-final nominal predicate preference in Japanese and discusses its communicative/interactional motivation.