Seiko Fujii
List of John Benjamins publications in which Seiko Fujii is involved.
2020 Argument structure satisfaction via unselected adjuncts: The case of the Japanese causal node construction The Wealth and Breadth of Construction-Based Research, Colleman, Timothy, Frank Brisard, Astrid De Wit, Renata Enghels, Nikos Koutsoukos, Tanja Mortelmans and María Sol Sansiñena (eds.), pp. 79–86 | Article
This paper presents a frame-based constructional approach to argument structure satisfaction via unselected adjuncts, by focusing on one such case in Japanese. It points out an intriguing constructional phenomenon whereby causal adjunct clauses marked with node ‘because’, as used with… read more
2013 A frame-based approach to connectives Advances in Frame Semantics, Fried, Mirjam and Kiki Nikiforidou (eds.), pp. 133–158 | Article
This study proposes an extended FrameNet approach for the description of connectives. The meanings of connectives are described with respect to the two frames evoked by each of the conjoined clauses, whose combinational patterns are termed “frame valences”. Taking the English polysemous connective… read more
2011 A frame-based approach to connectives Advances in Frame Semantics, pp. 128–154 | Article
This study proposes an extended FrameNet approach for the description of connectives. The meanings of connectives are described with respect to the two frames evoked by each of the conjoined clauses, whose combinational patterns are termed “frame valences”. Taking the English polysemous… read more
2010 On expressing measurement and comparison in English and Japanese Contrastive Studies in Construction Grammar, Boas, Hans C. (ed.), pp. 169–200 | Article
2006 Quoted thought and speech using the m itai-na ‘be-like’ noun-modifying construction Emotive Communication in Japanese, Suzuki, Satoko (ed.), pp. 53–95 | Article
2004 Chapter 4. Lexically (un)filled constructional schemes and construction types: The case of Japanese modal conditional constructions Construction Grammar in a Cross-Language Perspective, Fried, Mirjam and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 120–155 | Chapter
2000 Incipient decategrorization of MONO and grammaticalization of speaker attitude in Japanese discourse Pragmatic Markers and Propositional Attitude, Andersen, Gisle and Thorstein Fretheim (eds.), pp. 85–118 | Article
1996 Mental-space builders: Observations from Japanese and English conditionals Essays in Semantics and Pragmatics: In honor of Charles J. Fillmore, Shibatani, Masayoshi and Sandra A. Thompson (eds.), pp. 73–90 | Article