Modality in Japanese the layered structure of the clause and hierarchies of functional categories - Narrog, Heiko (John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2009)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-274) and index
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; Modality in Japanese linguistics*; The layered structure of the clause and hierarchies of functional categories; Modality in theories of the layered structure of the clause and hierarchies of functional categories; Modality and layering in Japanese linguistics; Summary
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