Japanese Modality

1. Introduction
Barbara Pizziconi, Mika Kizu

Part I. Contextualizing and Defining Japanese Modality

2. Modality, Modariti and Predication — the Story of Modality in Japan
Heiko Narrog

3. Modality from a Japanese Perspective
Takashi Masuoka

4. West meets East: a Kindaichian Approach to Subjective Modality
Lars Larm

5. What Is and Is not Language-Specific about the Japanese Modal System? A Comparative and Historical Perspective
Tetsuharu Moriya, Kaoru Horie

Part II. Japanese Modality from Semantic and Syntactic Perspectives

6. Tense and Settledness in Japanese Conditionals
Setsuko Arita

7. Conditional Modality: Two Types of Modal Auxiliaries in Japanese
Yukinori Takubo

8. Japanese Modals at the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface
Mika Kizu

Part III. Japanese Modality in Discourse

9. On the Modality of Noun Phrases as Minor Sentences in Japanese
Teruko Shin’ya

10. The Acquisition of Japanese Modality during Study Abroad
Suwako Watanabe, Noriko Iwasaki

11. The Interactional Consequences of Epistemic Indexicality — Some Thoughts on the Epistemic Marker -kamoshirenai
Barbara Pizziconi

Keywords: Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Language Education, Asian Literature, Asian Languages, Applied Linguistics