Yuki Johnson
List of John Benjamins publications in which Yuki Johnson is involved.
Articles
2014 On state of mind and grammatical forms
from functional perspectives: The case for Garu and Te-iru Usage-based Approaches to Japanese Grammar: Towards the understanding of human language, Kabata, Kaori and Tsuyoshi Ono (eds.), pp. 37–54 | Article
The basic usages of the auxiliary verbs ~garu and ~(te)iru are generally understood as expressing desire and thoughts other than those of the speaker him/herself. A proposition accompanying~garu and ~(te)iru is often used with a modal, such as mitai, rashii, etc.; therefore, it belongs to the… read more
2005 On the non-canonical double nominative construction in Japanese: The particle ga as an object marker Studies in Language 29:2, pp. 285–328 | Article
Japanese has two types of double nominative constructions — the first exemplified by sentences such as Taroo ga otoosan ga sinda “Taro — (his) father has died,” and the second by sentences such as Taroo ga eigo ga yoku dekiru “Taro can (speak) English well.” Kuno (1973a, b) claimed that the first… read more