Yosuke Sato

List of John Benjamins publications in which Yosuke Sato is involved.

Title

Minimalist Interfaces: Evidence from Indonesian and Javanese

Yosuke Sato

This monograph explores the interface between syntax and its related components through in-depth investigation of a sizable portion of the grammar of Indonesian and Javanese. It can be read on two levels. Theoretically, it proposes the minimalist interface thesis that syntax-external linguistic… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 155] 2010. xiii, 159 pp.

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Sato, Yosuke 2013 Wh-Questions in Colloquial Singapore English: Adaptive traits from vernacular Malay and typological congruence Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 28:2, pp. 299–322 | Article

This paper discusses supplementary roles played by Bazaar Malay and Baba Malay in the genesis of wh-questions in Colloquial Singapore English (CSE). CSE has three options for wh-questions: (a) full wh-movement, (b) partial wh-movement, and (c) wh-in-situ, just like Bazaar Malay and Baba Malay.… read more