Modality in Japanese : the layered structure of the clause and hierarchies of functional categories / / Heiko Narrog

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910810910903321
• Autore: Narrog Heiko
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2009
• ISBN: 1-282-10497-7; 9786612104978; 90-272-8975-1
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (304 p.)
• Collana: Studies in language companion series, , 0165-7763 ; ; v. 109
• Disciplina: 495.6/5
• Soggetti: Japanese language - Modality; Language and languages - Philosophy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-274) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Modality in Japanese -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Morpheme boundary symbols (Japanese examples -- cf. chapter 9) -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Introduction -- Modality and the layered structure of the clause -- A brief outline of modality -- 2.1 Modality as a grammatical category -- 2.2 Types of modality -- 2.3 The expression of modality -- 2.4 Clausal mood, illocutionary force and illocutionary modulation -- Modality in Japanese linguistics* -- 3.1 From 'predication' to modality as the subjective element in language -- 3.1.1 Predication and subjectivity -- 3.1.2 From 'predication' to modality -- 3.2 Current research on modality in Japanese linguistics -- 3.2.1 The common approach to modality in Japan -- 3.2.2 Other approaches -- The layered structure of the clause and hierarchies of functional categories -- 4.1 Semanto-syntactic layers in functional linguistics -- 4.1.1 The layered structure of the clause in RRG -- 4.1.2 The layered structure of the clause in FG -- 4.2 Cartography of syntactic structures -- 4.3 The layered structure of the clause in Japanese Linguistics -- 4.3.1 Previous research -- 4.3.2 Morpheme order and scope in Japanese -- Modality in theories of the layered structure of the clause and hierarchies of functional categories -- 5.1 Modality and layers of the clause (RRG, FG) -- 5.2 The place of ; modal categories in syntactic cartography -- 5.3 Evidence for layers and functional hierarchies -- Modality and layering in Japanese linguistics -- Summary -- The modal markers of Japanese - a short description -- Criteria for the description of modality -- Formal means of expression - an overview -- 9.1 Japanese morphological structure -- 9.2 Morphological constraints on morpheme concatenation -- 9.3 Affixes (Modal system I).; 9.4 Constructions beyond the one-word-phrase (Modal system II) -- 9.5 Verbal mood -- 9.6 Adverbs -- 9.7 Mental predicates -- The modal categories -- 10.1 Deontic modality -- 10.1.1 Possibility (permission) -- 10.1.2 Negated possibility (prohibition) -- 10.1.3 Necessity (obligation) -- 10.1.4 Negated necessity (exemption) -- 10.1.5 Recommendation -- 10.1.6 Inevitability -- 10.1.7 Summary -- 10.2 Boulomaic modality -- 10.2.1 Intention -- 10.2.2 Desire -- 10.2.3 Wishes -- 10.3 Dynamic modality -- 10.4 Epistemic modality -- 10.4.1 Marking in the verbal complex -- 10.4.1.1 Epistemic necessity -- 10.4.1.2 Epistemic possibility -- 10.4.1.3 'Speculative' daroo -- 10.4.2 Adverbs -- 10.4.3 Mental predicates -- 10.4.4 Scale of likelihood -- 10.5 Evidentials -- 10.5.1 Non-inferential evidentials (reportive rasii, soo(2)) -- 10.5.2 Inferential evidentials (non-reportive rasii, -soo(1), yoo/mitai) -- 10.5.2.1 Yoo/mitai and rasii -- 10.5.2.2 -soo(1) -- 10.5.2.3 Comparison -- 10.6 Correspondences across different types of modality -- 10.6.1 Deontic and epistemic modality -- 10.6.2 Boulomaic and deontic (dynamic) modality -- 10.6.3 Epistemic modality and evidentiality -- Categories on the periphery of modality -- Clausal moods -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Declaratives -- 11.2.1 Does Japanese have a 'suppositive mood'? -- 11.2.2 Counterfactuals -- 11.2.2.1 The epistemic type - Conditional construction with epistemic modal in the consequent -- 11.2.2.2 The volitive/evaluative type I - Conditional construction with evaluative predicate in the consequent -- 11.2.2.3 The volitive/evaluative type II - Non-conditional construction -- 11.2.2.4 Some remaining questions -- 11.3 Interrogatives -- 11.3.1 Requests for confirmation -- 11.3.2 Doubts -- 11.3.3 The 'dubitative' no de wa nai ka -- 11.4 Directives -- 11.4.1 Imperatives -- 11.4.2 Prohibitives -- 11.4.3 Hortatives.; 11.5 Optatives -- 11.6 Subordinate moods -- Illocutionary modulation -- 'Modality of explanation' -- Modality and the hierarchy of functional categories - an empirical study -- Data and methods -- 14.1 Data and frequencies -- 14.2 Corpus as a method -- 14.3 Principles of analysis -- Modality embedding modality (double modality) -- 15.1 Dynamic modality embedding modality -- 15.2 Boulomaic modality embedding modality -- 15.3 Deontic modality embedding modality -- 15.4 Epistemic modality embedding modality -- 15.5 Evidentiality embedding modality -- 15.6 Mood embedding modality -- 15.7 Layers within modality -- Modality and tense, aspect, negation -- 16.1 Modality and negation -- 16.2 Scope ambiguities -- 16.3 Modality and aspect -- 16.4 Modality and tense -- 16.5 Scope ambiguity between tense and modal morphemes -- Modality and higher categories -- 17.1 Modality and nominalization/complementation -- 17.2 Modality and illocutionary modulators -- Modality embedded in adverbial clauses -- 18.1 Modality in causal clauses -- 18.2 Modality in concessive and adversative clauses -- 18.3 Modality in conditional clauses -- Conclusion -- 19.1 Summary of the results -- 19.2 Relating the results to Role-and-Reference Grammar -- 19.3 Relating the results to Functional Grammar -- 19.4 Cartography of syntactic structures -- 19.5 A solution -- 19.6 Rethinking layering and hierarchies of functional categories -- Collocations -- Collocations -- 20.1 By relevance to modality -- 20.2 By mutual relevance -- 20.3 By raw ; frequencies -- 20.4 Conclusions -- References -- Index -- Studies in Language Companion Series.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.