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BL
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| Record Number
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963228
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| Doc. No
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b717598
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| Main Entry
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Narahara, Tomiko.
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| Title & Author
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The Japanese copula : : forms and functions /\ Tomiko Narahara.
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| Publication Statement
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Basingstoke ;New York, N.Y. :: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2002.
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| Page. NO
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x, 219 pages ;; 23 cm
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| ISBN
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0333969200
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: 9780333969205
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-213) and index.
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| Abstract
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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.
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| Subject
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Japanese language-- Inflection.
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Japanese language-- Verb phrase.
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18.87 Japanese language and literature.
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Japanese language-- Inflection.
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Japanese language-- Verb phrase.
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Japanska språket-- böjning.
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Japans.
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Koppelwerkwoorden.
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| Dewey Classification
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495.65
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| LC Classification
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PL562.N37 2002
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18.87bcl
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