Hokkaido University of Education

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

Izutsu, Mitsuko Narita & Katsunobu Izutsu 2026 Introduction: Solitude speech across languages and cultures

International Journal of Language and Culture 12:1 pp. 1–19 | introduction

Koguma, Takeshi & Katsunobu Izutsu 2026 Self-addressed solitude speech: A cross-linguistic perspective

Keywords: self-addressed solitude speech | first/second-person self-reference | split-self | self-blame | self-encouragement | self-command

International Journal of Language and Culture 12:1 pp. 55–88 | article

Izutsu, Mitsuko Narita & Katsunobu Izutsu 2026 Speaking while thinking: How dialogic is Japanese solitude speech?

Keywords: self-regulatory solitude speech | expressive solitude speech | dialogicity/monologicity | thinking | Japanese

International Journal of Language and Culture 12:1 pp. 20–54 | article

Izutsu, Katsunobu, Takeshi Koguma & Mitsuko Narita Izutsu 2026 When to prefer split-self conceptions: Self-reference in solitude speech in Ainu, English, Japanese, and Korean

Keywords: split-self | self-reference | mental solitude | directive force | reporting verb

International Journal of Language and Culture 12:1 pp. 118–154 | article

Izutsu, Mitsuko Narita, Katsunobu Izutsu & Yong-Taek Kim 2023 The final-appendage construction in Japanese and Korean: To what extent is post-predicative position exploited in the two East Asian languages?

Keywords: final-appendage construction | postposing | post-predicative position | Japanese | Korean

In: Different Slants on Grammaticalization, Hancil, Sylvie & Vittorio Tantucci (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 232] pp. 147–175

Izutsu, Katsunobu & Mitsuko Narita Izutsu 2023 Highlighting beginning, end, or transition in-between: Topic-shift conceptions in English, Ainu, and Japanese

Keywords: topic-shift | episode-shift | phase | beginning | end | and transition

In: Discourse Phenomena in Typological Perspective, Barotto, Alessandra & Simone Mattiola (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 227] pp. 295–336

Izutsu, Katsunobu & Mitsuko Narita Izutsu 2021 Presentation followed by negotiation: Final pragmatic particle sequencing in Ainu

Keywords: final particle | pragmatic particle | order | attitude | stance

In: Pragmatic Markers and Peripheries, Van Olmen, Daniël & Jolanta Šinkūnienė (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 325] p. 77

Izutsu, Mitsuko Narita & Katsunobu Izutsu 2020 Final or medial: Morphosyntactic and functional divergences in discourse particles of the same historical sources

In: Information-structural perspectives on discourse particles, Modicom, Pierre-Yves & Olivier Duplâtre (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 213] pp. 135–160

Izutsu, Katsunobu & Yong-Taek Kim 2020 Linguistic manifestations of fictive change participants: Apparent alternations between the accusative and the dative/comitative cases in Korean and Japanese

Keywords: fictive change | factive change | discourse-based event conception | case marking | change-constitutive event participant | change-independent event participant

Asian Languages and Linguistics 1:1 pp. 107–146 | article

Izutsu, Katsunobu & Mitsuko Narita Izutsu 2020 Dichotomous or continuous?: Final particles and a dualistic conception of grammar

Keywords: sentence-final | utterance-final | macrogrammar | microgrammar | thetical grammar | sentence grammar

In: Grammar and Cognition: Dualistic models of language structure and language processing, Haselow, Alexander & Gunther Kaltenböck (eds.) [Human Cognitive Processing: Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use, 70] pp. 159–190

Izutsu, Mitsuko Narita & Katsunobu Izutsu 2019 Why is Twitter so popular in Japan?: Linguistic devices for monologization

Keywords: Twitter | monologicity | dialogicity | anonymity | addressee underspecification | Japanese | English

Internet Pragmatics 2:2 pp. 260–289 | article

Izutsu, Katsunobu & Mitsuko Narita Izutsu 2016 Temporal scenery: Experiential bases for deictic concepts of time in East Asian languages

Keywords: deixis | directionality | encounter | motion | observer | order | time

In: Conceptualizations of Time, Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, Barbara (ed.) [Human Cognitive Processing: Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use, 52] pp. 207–242

Izutsu, Katsunobu & Mitsuko Narita Izutsu 2013 From discourse markers to modal/final particles: What the position reveals about the continuum

In: Discourse Markers and Modal Particles: Categorization and description, Degand, Liesbeth, Bert Cornillie & Paola Pietrandrea (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 234] pp. 217–236

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