Motoki Nomachi
List of John Benjamins publications in which Motoki Nomachi is involved.
Articles
2013 Chapter 4. Contact-induced replication: Some diagnostics Shared Grammaticalization: With special focus on the Transeurasian languages, Robbeets, Martine and Hubert Cuyckens (eds.), pp. 67–100 | Chapter
That contact between genetically unrelated languages (or dialects) has taken place is relatively easy to establish when they share, for instance, sufficient lexical or grammatical forms. This is usually much more difficult to demonstrate when the shared elements concern structure and/or meaning,… read more
2011 On predicting contact-induced grammatical change: Evidence from Slavic languages Journal of Historical Linguistics 1:1, pp. 48–76 | Article
For good reasons, linguists are highly skeptical when it comes to predicting linguistic change. As has been argued in Heine (2003: 598–599), based on observations on some regularities of grammatical change made within the framework of grammaticalization theory, however, it seems possible to… read more