Ritsumeikan University

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with Ritsumeikan University*

Okuma, Tokiko 2026 Acquiring the scope of logical connectives and negation in Japanese as a second language

Keywords: negated disjunction and conjunction | scope assignment | L2 Japanese | English | Mandarin

In: New Frontiers and Connections in Second Language Acquisition: Selected Proceedings of the 17th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA-17) Conference, Ionin, Tania & Silvina Montrul (eds.) [Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 71] pp. 101–128

Taura, Hideyuki 2025 Emergentism meets attrition: Returnee children as a lens on lifespan language dynamics

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 16:1 pp. 82–84 | article commentary

Okuma, Tokiko 2023 L1 effects in acquisition of the Japanese OPC by L1 English and L1 Spanish speakers

Keywords: The Overt Pronoun Constraint | null subjects | L2 Japanese | L2 Spanish | L2 Turkish | Full Transfer/Full Access Hypothesis | coreferential interpretation | bound variable interpretation

In: Individual Differences in Anaphora Resolution: Language and cognitive effects, Fotiadou, Georgia & Ianthi Maria Tsimpli (eds.) [Language Faculty and Beyond: Internal and External Variation in Linguistics, 18] pp. 118–141

Sato, Shie 2019 A corpus-based analysis of so in written discourse: A comparison between L1 English speakers and Japanese EFL learners

Keywords: so | discourse marker | L2 English writing | corpus-linguistics

Applied Pragmatics 1:1 pp. 26–45 | article

Komatsubara, Tetsuta 2020 Cognitive principles underlying predicational metonymy: Metonymic preference of aspect of predicates in Japanese intermediary causative constructions

Keywords: predicational metonymy | linguistic preference | aspect | cognitive principle

Cognitive Linguistic Studies 6:2 pp. 247–270 | article

Iwashita, Noriko & Sachiyo Sekiguchi 2009 Effects of learner background on the development of writing skills in Japanese as a second language

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 32:1 pp. 3.1–3.20 | article | open access

Nishiyama, Atsuko & Jean-Pierre Koenig 2008 10. The discourse functions of the present perfect

In: Constraints in Discourse, Benz, Anton & Peter Kühnlein (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 172] pp. 201–223

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.