Osamu Ishiyama

List of John Benjamins publications in which Osamu Ishiyama is involved.

Title

Diachrony of Personal Pronouns in Japanese: A functional and cross-linguistic perspective

Osamu Ishiyama

Personal pronouns in Japanese form a heterogeneous category. This book investigates their historical development from a functional perspective. It shows that while nouns give rise to personal pronouns through semanticization of pragmatic inferences, the use of non-nominal forms such as… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 344] 2019. ix, 173 pp.

Articles

Ishiyama, Osamu 2025 Crosslinguistic perspectives on the source of first/second person pronouns: With special reference to demonstratives From and Towards Demonstratives: Grammaticalization processes and beyond, Orqueda, Veronica and Berta González Saavedra (eds.), pp. 204–229 | Article

This study investigates demonstratives as the diachronic source of first/second person pronouns and shows that though several languages use them to designate the speaker/addressee, most usage does not conventionalize as first/second person pronouns despite the claim in previous studies. It then… read more

Ishiyama, Osamu 2014 The nature of speaker creativity in linguistic innovation Usage-Based Approaches to Language Change, Coussé, Evie and Ferdinand von Mengden (eds.), pp. 147–166 | Article

Deliberate speaker creativity, generally understood as the use of items with fuller lexical meanings in order to be expressive, plays a prominent role in many usage-based approaches to language change. However, the lack of consensus regarding its nature created confusions among researchers. This… read more

Ishiyama, Osamu 2012 The diachronic relationship between demonstratives and first/second person pronouns Journal of Historical Pragmatics 13:1, pp. 50–71 | Article

It is well known that demonstratives are the cross-linguistically common source of third person pronouns due to the functional similarity between them. For this reason, they are morphologically related to or formally indistinguishable from one another in many languages. First and second person… read more