Mutsumi Yamamoto

List of John Benjamins publications in which Mutsumi Yamamoto is involved.

Titles

Agency and Impersonality: Their Linguistic and Cultural Manifestations

Mutsumi Yamamoto

In this monograph the author probes the fundamental nature of the concept of agency and its importance to human language and cognition. Whereas previous studies focused on grammatical manifestations this original work addresses such issues as the strong relationship between agency and… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 78] 2006. x, 152 pp.

Animacy and Reference: A cognitive approach to corpus linguistics

Mutsumi Yamamoto

The concept of ‘animacy’ concerns the fundamental and cognitive question of the extent to which we recognize and express living things as saliently human-like or animal-like.In Animacy and Reference Mutsumi Yamamoto pursues two main objectives: First, to establish a conceptual framework of animacy,… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 46] 1999. xviii, 278 pp.