Akiyo Maruyama

List of John Benjamins publications in which Akiyo Maruyama is involved.

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Maruyama, Akiyo 2003 Japanese Wa in conversational discourse: A Contrast Marker Studies in Language 27:2, pp. 245–285 | Article
This study provides evidence to support the claim that a primary function of the postpositional particle wa in Japanese conversational discourse is to mark a contrast. Wa has been widely studied in research on sentence grammar, which has suggested two separate functions of the particle, thematic… read more
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