Japanese Modality

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Modality, Modariti and Predication — the Story of Modality in Japan

Chapter 3 Modality from a Japanese Perspective

Chapter 4 West meets East: a Kindaichian Approach to Subjective Modality

Chapter 5 What Is and Is not Language-Specific about the Japanese Modal System? A Comparative and Historical Perspective

Chapter 6 Tense and Settledness in Japanese Conditionals

Chapter 7 Conditional Modality: Two Types of Modal Auxiliaries in Japanese

Chapter 8 Japanese Modals at the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface

Chapter 9 On the Modality of Noun Phrases as Minor Sentences in Japanese

Chapter 10 The Acquisition of Japanese Modality during Study Abroad

Chapter 11 The Interactional Consequences of Epistemic Indexicality — Some Thoughts on the Epistemic Marker -kamoshirenai