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Hierarchical clause structure is an important feature of most theories of grammar. While it has been indispensable part of formal syntactic theories,
functional theories have more recently discovered ...
Hierarchical clause structure is an important feature of most theories of grammar. While it has been indispensable part of formal syntactic theories,
functional theories have more recently discovered for themselves a 'layered structure of the clause'. A major focus of the current discussion on
semanto-syntactic clause structure is the hierarchical ordering of grammatical categories such as tense, aspect and modality. However, there are very few
empirical studies yet to provide systematic evidence for presumably universal hierarchical structures.
This book presents a systematic corpus-based study of the semantic and morphosyntactic interaction of modality with tense, aspect, negation, and of modal
markers embedded in subordinate clauses. The results are critically compared with extant theories of hierarchies of grammatical categories, including those
in Functional Grammar, Role and Reference Grammar, and the Cartography of Syntactic Structures. It further includes an extensive description of the
expression of modality and related categories in Modern Japanese.
