Kaori Kabata

List of John Benjamins publications in which Kaori Kabata is involved.

Title

Usage-based Approaches to Japanese Grammar: Towards the understanding of human language

Edited by Kaori Kabata and Tsuyoshi Ono

This volume brings together papers that take usage-based approaches to study the nature of human language, with a focus on the grammar of Japanese. The 12 chapters provide a rich array of data and methodologies, with topics ranging from phonology, modality, and grammatical morphemes, to sentential… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 156] 2014. ix, 308 pp.

Articles

Kabata, Kaori 2014 Interchangeability of so-called interchangeable particles: Corpus analysis of spatial markers, Ni and E Usage-based Approaches to Japanese Grammar: Towards the understanding of human language, Kabata, Kaori and Tsuyoshi Ono (eds.), pp. 171–192 | Article

Three different sets of empirical data are compared to examine the usage distributions of ni and e, two particles that have been traditionally considered to be interchangeable in marking allative relations. The data from the speaker’s judgment test are more consistent with the semantic analyses of… read more

Kabata, Kaori and Sally Rice 1999 Japanes ni: The Particulars of a somewhat Contradictory Particle Lexical and Syntactical Constructions and the Construction of Meaning: Proceedings of the bi-annual ICLA meeting in Albuquerque, July 1995, Verspoor, Marjolijn H., Kee Dong Lee and Eve Sweetser (eds.), pp. 107–128 | Article