Japanese suppositional adverbs : probability and structure in speaker-hearer interaction
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Japanese suppositional adverbs, probability and structure in speaker-hearer interactionAbstract
From the point of view of discourse, modal meanings are interesting because, although their expression is structurally bound to sentences, their scope tends to converge with discourse units in conversation. in spoken Japanese, up to about 10% of suppositional modality meanings seem to be expressed by the seemingly redundant combination of the suppositional adverb (suiryooteki hukusi) and some corresponding utterance final modality form as in (1) below.
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29. 12. 2008
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Bekeš, A. (2008). Japanese suppositional adverbs : probability and structure in speaker-hearer interaction. Linguistica, 48(1), 277-292. https://doi.org/10.4312/linguistica.48.1.277-292