Tomoko Yamashita Smith
List of John Benjamins publications in which Tomoko Yamashita Smith is involved.
Articles
2010 An areal and cross-linguistic study of benefactive and malefactive constructions Benefactives and Malefactives: Typological perspectives and case studies, Zúñiga, Fernando and Seppo Kittilä (eds.), pp. 97–120 | Article
In this study, we compare languages of Europe with those in Asia, establishing a two-part typology of strategies that these languages use to express notions of benefactivity and malefactivity. Languages in Europe have a generalized and semantically underspecified affectedness construction as the… read more
2010 Cross-linguistic categorization of benefactives by event structure: A preliminary framework for benefactive typology Benefactives and Malefactives: Typological perspectives and case studies, Zúñiga, Fernando and Seppo Kittilä (eds.), pp. 71–96 | Article
The first of its kind, this study classifies the semantics of benefactive constructions from over sixty languages according to event structure types, identifying two basic types. The “agentive benefactive” construction, always includes an agent and expresses that the agent intentionally carries out… read more