Kan Sasaki

List of John Benjamins publications in which Kan Sasaki is involved.

Article

Sasaki, Kan and Akie Yamazaki 2006 Two types of detransitive constructions in the dialects of Japanese Passivization and Typology: Form and function, Abraham, Werner and Larisa Leisiö (eds.), pp. 352–372 | Article

The Hokkaido dialect of Japanese, spoken in the northern island Hokkaido, has two detransitivizing strategies, namely passivization and spontaneous construction formation. Passive and spontaneous morphemes share the function of demoting the transitive subject, although different strategies are used… read more