Fuyo Osawa
List of John Benjamins publications in which Fuyo Osawa is involved.
2022 The rivalry between definiteness and specificity: The grammaticalization of definiteness in DP emergence English Noun Phrases from a Functional-Cognitive Perspective: Current issues, Sommerer, Lotte and Evelien Keizer (eds.), pp. 79–106 | Chapter
This paper addresses the question of why Present-day English (hereafter PDE) grammaticalized definiteness, but not specificity, as a D head. Two semantic properties are involved in the use of nominals: [definite] and [specific]. Definiteness means that a nominal marked as [+definite] indicates… read more
2009 The emergence of DP in the history of English: The role of the mysterious genitive Historical Linguistics 2007: Selected papers from the 18th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Montreal, 6–11 August 2007, Dufresne, Monique, Fernande Dupuis and Etleva Vocaj (eds.), pp. 135–148 | Article
I claim that the genitive case played a very important role in the emergence of a functional D system in English. I take up the rise of a group genitive, which puzzled Janda (1980), as an example since this is a change from morphology to syntax, going against the dictum that “today’s morphology is… read more
2007 The emergence of DP from a perspective of ontogeny and phylogeny: Correlation between DP, TP and aspect in Old English and first language acquisition Nominal Determination: Typology, context constraints, and historical emergence, Stark, Elisabeth, Elisabeth Leiss and Werner Abraham (eds.), pp. 311–337 | Article
The aim of this paper is to discuss the English NP and its historical development into DP via the emergence of a functional D-system. This is related to the mechanism of theta-binding (Higginbotham 1985). The languages of the world could be described in terms of a D-system and morphological case.… read more
2003
The rise of IPs in the History of English
Historical Linguistics 2001: Selected papers from the 15th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Melbourne, 13–17 August 2001, Blake, Barry J. and Kate Burridge (eds.), pp. 321–337 | Article