Jun-ichi Toyota
List of John Benjamins publications in which Jun-ichi Toyota is involved.
Articles
2006 Grammatical voice and tense-aspect in Slavic Passivization and Typology: Form and function, Abraham, Werner and Larisa Leisiö (eds.), pp. 191–212 | Article
In this paper, we analyse the prototypicality of the passive voice in the Slavic languages. We argue that there are some variations in the periphrastic passive, which stem from the historical development of the tense-aspect system, particularly from an earlier resultative construction in the case… read more
2005 Politeness as a distancing device in the passive and in indefinite pronouns Opening Windows on Texts and Discourses of the Past, Skaffari, Janne, Matti Peikola, Ruth Carroll, Risto Hiltunen and Brita Wårvik (eds.), pp. 319–339 | Article
This paper deals with the relationship between the passive and the indefinite pronoun from a functional perspective. We point out that the linkage between these two constructions is often made possible due to politeness, in a sense that both constructions create pragmatic distance between a speaker… read more