Takashi Sugahara
List of John Benjamins publications in which Takashi Sugahara is involved.
Articles
2022 The correlation between meaning and verb formation in Japanese sound-symbolic words Iconicity in Cognition and across Semiotic Systems, Lenninger, Sara, Olga Fischer, Christina Ljungberg and Elżbieta Tabakowska (eds.), pp. 351–368 | Chapter
This study uses quantitative analysis to explore the correlation between meaning and the verb formation of Japanese sound-symbolic words. The study shows that the verb formation of Japanese sound-symbolic words may not fit into traditional categories, such as phonomimes, phenomimes, and… read more
2015 A corpus-based semantic analysis of Japanese mimetic verbs Iconicity: East meets West, Hiraga, Masako K., William J. Herlofsky, Kazuko Shinohara and Kimi Akita (eds.), pp. 143–160 | Article
Based on corpus data, this paper explores the unique semantic properties of tuku-verbs, a class of mimetic verbs, in comparison to reduplicative suru-verbs, which have been shown to exhibit highly systematic properties. The paper demonstrates that tuku-verbs are semantically constrained as… read more