The Japanese Copula: Forms and Functions
Tomiko Narahara · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 2002
Acknowledgements PART ONE: CONCEPT OF COPULA Introduction to Japanese Copula Copula as a Universal Notion PART TWO: FORMS AND FUNCTIONS: THE VIEW FROM FEATURE MORPHOLOGY Grammatical Feature Representation Against Overt Present Tense Feature Morphology Categorial Marking Analysis PART THREE: EVOLUTION OF INFLECTIONAL MORPHOLOGY Categorial Forms in a Diachronic Perspective Forms and Functions of Modern Copula Da Discourse Functions of Da and Zyanai Index