Nana Tohyama
List of John Benjamins publications in which Nana Tohyama is involved.
Articles
2020 Grammatical nominalization in Yoron Ryukyuan Studies in Language 44:4, pp. 879–916 | Article
Despite extensive research on Ryukyuan languages, relatively few attempts have been made to describe Ryukyuan nominalization. This paper sets out the agenda for exploring Ryukyuan nominalization with special reference to Yoron Ryukyuan, which, we propose, has four nominalizers: -si, hutu, munu,… read more
2018 The affective construction in Yoron Ryukyuan Studies in Language 42:2, pp. 418–454 | Article
In Yoron Ryukyuan, passives are formed through the verbal suffix ‘-ari’. In this article, we observe that the suffix is used to form a construction distinguished from the standard passives in several respects: (i) attachment of ‘-ari’ to a wide range of predicates, (ii) ‘-ari’ obligatorily… read more