Masaharu Shimada
List of John Benjamins publications in which Masaharu Shimada is involved.
Articles
2022 Chapter 11. Ambiguities in Japanese pseudo-coordination and its dialectal variation Pseudo-Coordination and Multiple Agreement Constructions, Giusti, Giuliana, Vincenzo Nicolò Di Caro and Daniel Ross (eds.), pp. 245–270 | Chapter
This paper addresses Japanese pseudo-coordination containing an existential verb by focusing on the two types of existential verbs, one taking an animate subject and the other taking an inanimate subject. Though both can form a pseudo-coordination expression, one is two-way ambiguous in… read more
2017 Miratives in Japanese: The rise of mirative markers via grammaticalization The Rise and Development of Evidential and Epistemic Markers, Cruschina, Silvio and Eva-Maria Remberger (eds.), pp. 213–244 | Article
The notion of mirativity as a grammatical category separate from evidentiality is controversial, but a certain amount of cross-linguistic evidence speaks for its validity. The aim of this study is to investigate this notion in contemporary and earlier Japanese, which is shown to have mirative… read more