Yuko Otsuka

List of John Benjamins publications in which Yuko Otsuka is involved.

Articles

Otsuka, Yuko 2010 Genitive relative constructions and agent incorporation in Tongan Austronesian and Theoretical Linguistics, Mercado, Raphael, Eric Potsdam and Lisa deMena Travis (eds.), pp. 117–140 | Article

Polynesian languages commonly use the genitive relative construction (GRC) for non-subject relatives, in which the thematic subject of the relative clause is realized as a genitive that seemingly modifies the head noun. In Tongan, the GRC shows additional idiosyncratic properties: (a) The relative… read more

Otsuka, Yuko 2005 Two derivations of VSO: A comparative study of Niuean and Tongan Verb First: On the syntax of verb-initial languages, Carnie, Andrew, Heidi Harley and Sheila Dooley (eds.), pp. 65–90 | Article