Shigeko Nariyama

List of John Benjamins publications in which Shigeko Nariyama is involved.

Title

Ellipsis and Reference Tracking in Japanese

Shigeko Nariyama

In many East Asian languages, despite the prevalent occurrence of implicit reference, reference management is largely achieved without recourse to familiar agreement features. For this reason, recovering ellipted reference has been a perplexing problem in the analysis of these languages.This book… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 66] 2003. xvi, 400 pp.

Articles

Nariyama, Shigeko 2013 Discourse coherence and referent identification of subject ellipsis in Japanese Meta-informative Centering in Utterances: Between Semantics and Pragmatics, Włodarczyk, André and Hélène Włodarczyk (eds.), pp. 167–182 | Article

This paper discusses two ellipsis-related issues using the MIC theory as the backbone of explanation: (1) ellipsis as a discourse coherence marker, which answers the question, why use ellipsis (i.e. the pragmatic issue); and (2) referent identification of ellipsis, which answers the question, how… read more

Nariyama, Shigeko 2010 Review of Narrog (2009): Modality in Japanese: The layered structure of the clause and hierarchies of functional categories Studies in Language 34:2, pp. 462–470 | Review

Nariyama, Shigeko 2002 The WA/GA distinction and switch-reference for ellipted subject identification in Japanese complex sentences Studies in Language 26:2, pp. 369–431 | Article

This paper elucidates one interacting aspect of two problematic issues in Japanese grammar: the functional differences between the nominative marker GA and the topic marker WA, and the referential identity of ellipted subjects. My analysis shows that the interaction of WA and GA in complex… read more