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

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TOMIKO NARAHARA is Assistant Professor of Japanese Language and Linguistics and Director of the Japanese Language Programme at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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