Japanese suppositional adverbs : probability and structure in speaker-hearer interaction

Authors

  • Andrej Bekeš University of Ljubljana

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4312/linguistica.48.1.277-292

Keywords:

Japanese suppositional adverbs, probability and structure in speaker-hearer interaction

Abstract

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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Published

29. 12. 2008

How to Cite

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