Mizuho Tamaji

List of John Benjamins publications in which Mizuho Tamaji is involved.

Article

Tamaji, Mizuho 2017 Development of ‘say’-derived constructions: The case of tote and totemo  Language and Linguistics 18:2, pp. 296–325 | Article

Totemo in contemporary Japanese is a degree adverb (intensifier). Previous studies have reported that totemo derived from the adverb totemo kakutemo, which means ‘either way’ (and hence is a bipolar item) in classical Japanese. These studies also reported that totemo became a negative polarity… read more