Yasuko Watanabe
List of John Benjamins publications in which Yasuko Watanabe is involved.
Articles
1994 Clause-Chaining, Switch-Reference and Action/Event Continuity in Japanese Discourse: The Case of Te, To and Zero-Conjunction Studies in Language 18:1, pp. 127–203 | Article
This paper investigates the clause-chaining mechanism exhibited in Japanese. Clause-chaining is characterized by a string of clauses with non-finite (or partly non-finite) verb forms followed by a clause with a finite verb. The basic property of clause-chaining devices is to conjoin two or more… read more
1986 Two Kinds of Ellipsis in Japanes Discourse: A Quantitative Text Study Studies in Language 10:2, pp. 337–351 | Article
1984 Transitivity and Evidentiality in Japanese Studies in Language 8:2, pp. 235–251 | Article