Seiki Ayano

List of John Benjamins publications in which Seiki Ayano is involved.

Articles

Ayano, Seiki 2004 The Layered Internal Structure of Spatial PPs Adpositions of Movement, Cuyckens, Hubert, Walter De Mulder and Tanja Mortelmans (eds.), pp. 3–27 | Article

The principal goal of this paper is to show that spatial PPs in English and Dutch have a layered internal structure. In these languages, we find PP constructions containing multiple Ps, which can be analyzed as having a layered PP structure. That is, [+locational] PP headed by lexical P is embedded… read more

Ayano, Seiki 1998 The Progressive in Japanese and Temporal Advancement in Narrative Tense and Aspect: The contextual processing of semantic indeterminacy, Vogeleer, Svetlana, Walter De Mulder and Ilse Depraetere (eds.), pp. 1–19 | Article

Abstract. Various studies have indicated that the aspectual class controls the narrative temporal structure. In principle, sentences with a bound/perfcctive interpretation advance time in narrative. For example, a sentence with either an achievement or an accomplishment predicate does not overlap… read more