Toshio Ohori
List of John Benjamins publications in which Toshio Ohori is involved.
2015 Rethinking diagrammatic iconicity from an evolutionary perspective Iconicity: East meets West, Hiraga, Masako K., William J. Herlofsky, Kazuko Shinohara and Kimi Akita (eds.), pp. 259–274 | Article
This paper reexamines the notion of diagrammatic iconicity in grammar, i.e. the isomorphism of relational structure across form and meaning. After a quick survey of the various definitions of diagrammatic iconicity, some illustrations are given from coordinating constructions. It is shown that… read more
2010 Pragmatic factors in the development of a switch-adjective language: A case study of the Miyako-Hirara dialect of Ryukyuan Parts of Speech: Empirical and theoretical advances, Ansaldo, Umberto, Jan Don and Roland Pfau (eds.), pp. 107–133 | Article
2008 Reintroducing inverse constructions in Japanese:
The deictic verb kuru “to come” in the paradigms of argument encoding
Investigations of the Syntax–Semantics–Pragmatics Interface, Van Valin Jr., Robert D. (ed.), pp. 37–57 | ArticleThis paper reexamines the Japanese deictic verb kuru “to come” within the RRG framework and argues that its auxiliary use should be analyzed as a kind of inverse marker, elaborating on Shibatani (e.g., 2003). We show that the division of labor between the active-passive system and the… read more
2008 Pragmatic factors in the development of a switch-adjective language: A case study of the Miyako-Hirara dialect of Ryukyuan Parts of Speech: Descriptive tools, theoretical constructs, Ansaldo, Umberto, Jan Don and Roland Pfau (eds.), pp. 610–636 | Article
The Miyako-Hirara dialect of Ryukyuan is a switch-adjective language, i.e. it employs both nominal and verbal strategies for its adjectival roots. The choice of the encoding option in the predicative position depends on the information structure of the sentence. If a predicative adjective is in… read more
2005 9. Construction Grammar as a conceptual framework for linguistic typology: A case from reference tracking Grammatical Constructions: Back to the roots, Fried, Mirjam and Hans C. Boas (eds.), pp. 215–237 | Chapter
2004 2. Coordination in Mentalese Coordinating Constructions, Haspelmath, Martin (ed.), pp. 41–66 | Chapter
1.Introduction: Mental logic meets linguistic typology
2. Against the universality of coordination
2.1 The universalist claim formulated
2.2 Cross-categorial uniformity
2.3 Category-internal uniformity
3. The relationship between and and or
3.1 Underdifferentiation
3.2 … read more
2001 Review of Taylor & Taylor (1995): Writing and Literacy in Chinese, Korean and Japanese Studies in Language 25:1, pp. 174–178 | Review
1996 Remarks on suspended clauses: A contribution to Japanese phraseology Essays in Semantics and Pragmatics: In honor of Charles J. Fillmore, Shibatani, Masayoshi and Sandra A. Thompson (eds.), pp. 201–218 | Article
1994 TE and BA in Old through Middle Japanese Perspectives on Grammaticalization, Pagliuca, William (ed.), pp. 135–149 | Article