Ryoko Suzuki

List of John Benjamins publications in which Ryoko Suzuki is involved.

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Usage-based and Typological Approaches to Linguistic Units

Edited by Tsuyoshi Ono, Ritva Laury and Ryoko Suzuki

The chapters in this volume focus on how we might understand the concept of ‘unit’ in human languages. It is an analytical notion that has been widely adopted by linguists of various theoretical and applied orientations but has recently been critically examined by both typologically oriented and… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 114] 2021. v, 204 pp.

Usage-based and Typological Approaches to Linguistic Units

Edited by Tsuyoshi Ono, Ritva Laury and Ryoko Suzuki

Special issue of Studies in Language 43:2 (2019) vi, 253 pp.

Subordination in Conversation: A cross-linguistic perspective

Edited by Ritva Laury and Ryoko Suzuki

The articles in this volume examine the notion of clausal subordination based on English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German and Japanese conversational data. Some of the articles approach ‘subordination’ in terms of social action, taking into account what participants are doing with their talk,… read more

[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 24] 2011. viii, 244 pp.

Historical Changes in Japanese: Subjectivity and intersubjectivity

Edited by Noriko O. Onodera and Ryoko Suzuki

Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 8:2 (2007) 176 pp.

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Suzuki, Ryoko 2024 Chapter 8. Manipulating referentiality and creating phaticness: Repeated use of novel ad hoc NPs in Japanese conversation (Non)referentiality in Conversation, Ewing, Michael C. and Ritva Laury (eds.), pp. 141–166 | Chapter

The focus of this study is the creation of novel ad hoc expressions from the perspective of referentiality. Through the close analysis of three cases from video-recorded conversations in Japanese, we find that speakers create novel NPs by manipulating referentiality and embodiment, and achieve… read more

Laury, Ritva, Tsuyoshi Ono and Ryoko Suzuki 2021 Questioning the clause as a crosslinguistic unit in grammar and interaction Usage-based and Typological Approaches to Linguistic Units, Ono, Tsuyoshi, Ritva Laury and Ryoko Suzuki (eds.), pp. 123–160 | Chapter

This paper focuses on ‘clause’, a celebrated structural unit in linguistics, by comparing Finnish and Japanese, two languages which are genetically, typologically, and areally distinct from each other and from English, the language on the basis of which this structural unit has been most… read more

Ono, Tsuyoshi, Ritva Laury and Ryoko Suzuki 2021 On the notion of unit in the study of human languages Usage-based and Typological Approaches to Linguistic Units, Ono, Tsuyoshi, Ritva Laury and Ryoko Suzuki (eds.), pp. 1–9 | Chapter

Ono, Tsuyoshi and Ryoko Suzuki 2020 Chapter 3. Exploration into a new understanding of ‘zero anaphora’ in Japanese everyday talk Fixed Expressions: Building language structure and social action, Laury, Ritva and Tsuyoshi Ono (eds.), pp. 41–70 | Chapter

This chapter examines the phenomenon called ‘zero anaphora’ in Japanese where syntactic arguments, thought to be projected by the predicates, are assumed to be deleted yet their referents are still tracked. A close inspection of representative narrative and interactive segments reveals that… read more

Laury, Ritva, Tsuyoshi Ono and Ryoko Suzuki 2019 Questioning the clause as a crosslinguistic unit in grammar and interaction Usage-based and Typological Approaches to Linguistic Units, Ono, Tsuyoshi, Ritva Laury and Ryoko Suzuki (eds.), pp. 364–401 | Article

Ono, Tsuyoshi, Ritva Laury and Ryoko Suzuki 2019 On the notion of unit in the study of human languages Usage-based and Typological Approaches to Linguistic Units, Ono, Tsuyoshi, Ritva Laury and Ryoko Suzuki (eds.), pp. 245–253 | Introduction

Ono, Tsuyoshi and Ryoko Suzuki 2014 Introduction: Situating usage-based (Japanese) linguistics Usage-based Approaches to Japanese Grammar: Towards the understanding of human language, Kabata, Kaori and Tsuyoshi Ono (eds.), pp. 1–10 | Article

Laury, Ritva and Ryoko Suzuki 2011 Introduction Subordination in Conversation: A cross-linguistic perspective, Laury, Ritva and Ryoko Suzuki (eds.), pp. 1–10 | Article

Suzuki, Ryoko 2011 A note on the emergence of quotative constructions in Japanese conversation Subordination in Conversation: A cross-linguistic perspective, Laury, Ritva and Ryoko Suzuki (eds.), pp. 149–164 | Article

Suzuki, Ryoko 2008 Quoting and topic-marking: Some observations on the quotative tte construction in Japanese Crosslinguistic Studies of Clause Combining: The multifunctionality of conjunctions, Laury, Ritva (ed.), pp. 231–246 | Article

Tte is a frequent marker in Japanese conversation exhibiting multiple discourse functions: as a quotative, topic-marker, utterance-final pragmatic particle, and utterance-initial repair marker. We focus on the relationship between the original quotative function and the topic-marking function found… read more

Onodera, Noriko O. and Ryoko Suzuki 2007 Historical changes in Japanese: With special focus on subjectivity and intersubjectivity: Introduction Historical Changes in Japanese: Subjectivity and intersubjectivity, Onodera, Noriko O. and Ryoko Suzuki (eds.), pp. 153–169 | Article

Suzuki, Ryoko 2007 (Inter)subjectification in the quotative tte in Japanese conversation: Local change, utterance-ness and verb-ness Historical Changes in Japanese: Subjectivity and intersubjectivity, Onodera, Noriko O. and Ryoko Suzuki (eds.), pp. 207–237 | Article

This article discusses the process of (inter)subjectification in grammatical constructions including tte, which is known as the quotative complementizer in present-day Japanese. About 170 instances of tte constructions that appeared in the conversational data spanning over 200 years are analyzed,… read more

Suzuki, Ryoko 2006 How does ‘reason’ become less and less reasonable? Pragmatics of the utterance-final wake in conversational discourse Emotive Communication in Japanese, Suzuki, Satoko (ed.), pp. 35–51 | Article