Some Thoughts on a Discourse-Functional Approach to Japanese

日本語文法の研究と私
Some Thoughts on a Discourse-Functional Approach to Japanese Grammar
マグロイン直美 (ウィスコンシン大学 マディソン校) NAOMI MCGLOIN (UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON)
…languages have many and arcane ways of expressing concepts; we should not assume a language cannot make a
distinction just because it has no exclusive form by which to make it. (Robin Lakoff, 1972, pp. 926)