Hiroaki Koga
List of John Benjamins publications in which Hiroaki Koga is involved.
Articles
2022 Chapter 3. Linguistic representations of visual motion: A crosslinguistic experimental study Neglected Aspects of Motion-Event Description: Deixis, asymmetries, constructions, Sarda, Laure and Benjamin Fagard (eds.), pp. 43–67 | Chapter
Linguistic expressions of visual motion (e.g., look into the building) in ten languages are compared, based on a crosslinguistic production experiment. We examine how linguistic representations of visual motion are typologically akin to those of self- and caused motion events. The results… read more
2008 Reintroducing inverse constructions in Japanese:
The deictic verb kuru “to come” in the paradigms of argument encoding
Investigations of the Syntax–Semantics–Pragmatics Interface, Van Valin Jr., Robert D. (ed.), pp. 37–57 | ArticleThis paper reexamines the Japanese deictic verb kuru “to come” within the RRG framework and argues that its auxiliary use should be analyzed as a kind of inverse marker, elaborating on Shibatani (e.g., 2003). We show that the division of labor between the active-passive system and the… read more

