Modality and Its Learner Variety in Japanese

215 S. Tadellos erhalten. - Inhalt: Unfolding the Theoretical Underpinnings: Introduction -- The Functional Linguistic Approach -- The Notion of Modality -- Second Language Acquisition Theories Based on the Functional Linguistic Approach -- The Concept of Learner Variety -- The Learner Variety of Utterance Structure and Modality in Grammaticalization -- Setting the Stage for the Study: The Present Trend of Modality Studies in Nihongo Bunpou -- The System of Modariti as Described by the Nihongo Kijutsu Bunpou Kenkyuukai -- Formulating a Grammatical System of Modality in Japanese Using the European Framework -- Present Trends in Studies on the Acquisition of Modality in L2 Japanese -- Projecting the Shape of the Learners' Modal System in the Interlanguage of Japanese -- Empirical Findings of the Study: Organizing Learner Corpora with Modal Means in the IL of Japanese -- Demonstrating the Shape of the Modal System in the Emergent Interlanguage of Japanese -- Signifying the Learner Variety of Modality in Japanese. - In this book modality and its learner variety in Japanese are investigated from the perspective of grammaticalization in the functional framework, it describes the grammatical system of modality in Japanese in terms of the form-function relationship within the scope of a framework based on the European school of modality. Accordingly, it deals with the modal system and its constituents in Japanese, accommodating all the grammatical means of modariti (modality) in the Nihongo bunpou (Japanese grammar system). This study also casts light on the learner variety of modality, which is comprised of two core systems, epistemic and deontic, both of which are evident at the utterance level and the morphosyntactic ievel. The learner variety of modality elucidated here is presented as a proto-modality, which is viewed as a system in its own right rather than as an improvised or distorted version of the native modal system in Japanese. (Verlagstext). ISBN 9783035302936

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