Handbook of Japanese Semantics and Pragmatics /

Handbook of Japanese Semantics and Pragmatics / / ed. by Wesley M. Jacobsen, Yukinori Takubo.

The volume on Semantics and Pragmatics presents a collection of studies on linguistic meaning in Japanese, either as conventionally encoded in linguistic form (the field of semantics) or as generated by the interaction of form with context (the field of pragmatics), representing a range of ideas and...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
MitwirkendeR:
Davis, Christopher,
Gunji, Takao,
Hara, Yurie,
Hayashishita, J.-R.,
Imani, Ikumi,
Iwasaki, Noriko,
Jacobsen, Wesley M.,
Kageyama, Taro,
Kaufmann, Magdalena,
Kaufmann, Stefan,
Kinuhata, Tomohide,
Kudo, Mayumi,
Matsumoto, Yo,
McCready, Elin,
Nishiyama, Yuji,
Pizziconi, Barbara,
Shibatani, Masayoshi,
Takubo, Yukinori,
Tamura, Sanae,
Tomioka, Satoshi,
Ueyama, Ayumi,
HerausgeberIn:
Jacobsen, Wesley M.,
Takubo, Yukinori,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics [HJLL] , 5
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XLIV, 843 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Introduction to the Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics
  • Table of Contents
  • Contributors
  • Introduction
  • I Word-level semantics
  • 1 The semantics of Japanese verbs
  • 2 The semantics of nouns
  • II Proposition-level semantics
  • 3 Toward an empirical foundation for argument structure in Japanese, a prodrop language
  • 4 Formal logical approaches to meaning in Japanese
  • 5 Sentence structure and quantifier scope in Japanese: A retrospective and reanalysis
  • III The semantics of time
  • 6 Temporal categories: Interactions among tense, aspect, and nontemporal meaning
  • 7 Formal treatments of tense and aspect
  • 8 Tense and aspect in discourse
  • IV The semantics of reality
  • 9 Conditionals in Japanese
  • 10 Negation
  • 11 Possibility and necessity in Japanese: Prioritizing, epistemic, and dynamic modality
  • V The semantics of information: Speaker-oriented modality
  • 12 Evidentials: Marking the source of information
  • 13 Presupposition and assertion
  • 14 Sentence-final particles in Japanese
  • VI Meaning in context: Inter-speaker modality and pragmatics
  • 15 Nominal deixis in Japanese
  • 16 Social deixis in Japanese
  • 17 Conversational implicature
  • 18 Japanese fillers as discourse markers: Meanings of “meaningless” elements
  • Subject Index

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