Hidemi Sugi Riggs

List of John Benjamins publications in which Hidemi Sugi Riggs is involved.

Articles

Riggs, Hidemi Sugi 2011 Focus system of the Japanese benefactive auxiliaries kureru and morau Linguistic Theory and Empirical Evidence, Jonge, Bob de and Yishai Tobin (eds.), pp. 139–166 | Article

This paper provides a novel analysis of two benefactive auxiliaries in Japanese, kureru and morau, arguing that the difference between them is agent focus vs. agent defocus. The analysis of collected data reveals the shortcomings of previous grammatical accounts that posit that a speaker’s… read more

Riggs, Hidemi Sugi 2006 The structure of the Japanese inferential system: A functional analysis of daroo, rashii, soo-da, and yooda Advances in Functional Linguistics: Columbia School beyond its origins, Davis, Joseph, Radmila J. Gorup and Nancy Stern (eds.), pp. 239–262 | Article

This paper provides an analysis of Japanese inferential auxiliaries (daroo, rashii, soo-da, yooda) that enables us to explain all occurrences of these words in discourse. Despite extensive research on these forms, grammatical analysis has not yet successfully explained their distribution. This… read more