Japanese Copula: Forms and Functions
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In this innovative study, Tomiko Narahara offers a multi-disciplinary description of the Japanese copula, revealing it to be at the interface of morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. Most striking is her discovery of the copula's function to express the speaker's knowledge or ignorance about the proposition of the sentence. She provides a new morphological feature analysis to derive this modal function and further proposes a series of unified accounts for a wide range of discourse phenomena.
AcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsPt. IThe Concept of the Copula1Introduction to the Japanese Copula32The Copula as a Universal Notion15Pt. IIForms and Functions: The View from Feature Morphology3Grammatical Feature Representation434Against Non-past Tense Morphology575Categorial Marking Analysis71Pt. IIIEvolution of Inflectional Morphology6Verb Forms857Adjective Forms958Copula Forms106Pt. IVForms and Functions of the Modern Copula9De aru Copula13310Da14711Discourse Functions of da and zyanai181Notes203References206Index214
