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Publication details [#6666]

McGloin, Naomi H. and Hiroko Terakura. 1978. On the assertive predicate 'no desu' in Japanese. Papers from the Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society 14 : 285–296.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

appropriateness | assertive | content1 | emphasis2 | subjectivity

Language as a subject

Japanese

Annotation

M. and T. argue that 'no desu' indicates the speaker's subjective and emphatic assertion, and that conversational content is crucial in determining the appropriateness of 'no desu' sentences.