@inbook{0a7c1b4461f64b47bcc4905508dafca7,
title = "Modal marking in conditionals. Grammar, usage and discourse",
abstract = "This paper investigates modal marking in conditionals with respect to two research questions: (1) How tightly integrated are conditional sentences, both relative to similar adverbial clause constructions, and with respect to different variants of conditional constructions. (2) What are the pragmatic biases and discursive patterns, if any, that motivate conditional constructions with modal marking. These issues are investigated with the help of a large corpus of Modern Japanese. The data suggest that (1) conditional sentences are relatively tightly integrated compared to causal, and probably also concessive constructions, but there are considerable differences between different types of conditional constructions, and (2) modally marked conditional sentences are overwhelmingly associated with deontic speech acts. A number of discursive patterns associated with spoken language can be identified, some of which are probably cross-linguistically replicable.",
keywords = "Conditional clauses, Discourse patterns, Japanese, Modality, Speech acts",
author = "Heiko Narrog",
note = "Funding Information: I wish to thank the editors for their kind invitation to contribute to this volume and their input to the manuscript, and the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science for the support received through grant number 16H03411. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 John Benjamins Publishing Company",
year = "2020",
doi = "10.1075/slcs.216.07nar",
language = "English",
series = "Studies in Language Companion Series",
publisher = "John Benjamins Publishing Company",
pages = "173--193",
editor = "Pascal Hohaus and Rainer Schulze",
booktitle = "Re-Assessing Modalising Expressions. Categories, co-text, and context",
address = "Netherlands",
}