Usage-based and Typological Approaches to Linguistic Units
Edited by Tsuyoshi Ono, Ritva Laury and Ryoko Suzuki
[Benjamins Current Topics, 114] 2021. v, 204 pp.
Ryoko Suzuki
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ryoko Suzuki plays a role.
Subjects Functional linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Usage-based and Typological Approaches to Linguistic Units
Edited by Tsuyoshi Ono, Ritva Laury and Ryoko Suzuki
Special issue of Studies in Language 43:2 (2019) vi, 253 pp.
Subjects Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Subordination in Conversation: A cross-linguistic perspective
Edited by Ritva Laury and Ryoko Suzuki
[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 24] 2011. viii, 244 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Syntax
Historical Changes in Japanese: Subjectivity and intersubjectivity
Edited by Noriko O. Onodera and Ryoko Suzuki
Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 8:2 (2007) 176 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics
2024 Chapter 8. Manipulating referentiality and creating phaticness: Repeated use of novel ad hoc NPs in Japanese conversation (Non)referentiality in Conversation, Ewing, Michael C. and Ritva Laury (eds.), pp. 141–166 | Chapter
The focus of this study is the creation of novel ad hoc expressions from the perspective of referentiality. Through the close analysis of three cases from video-recorded conversations in Japanese, we find that speakers create novel NPs by manipulating referentiality and embodiment, and achieve… read more
2021 Questioning the clause as a crosslinguistic unit in grammar and interaction Usage-based and Typological Approaches to Linguistic Units, Ono, Tsuyoshi, Ritva Laury and Ryoko Suzuki (eds.), pp. 123–160 | Chapter
This paper focuses on ‘clause’, a celebrated structural unit in linguistics, by comparing Finnish and Japanese, two languages which are genetically, typologically, and areally distinct from each other and from English, the language on the basis of which this structural unit has been most… read more
2021 On the notion of unit in the study of human languages Usage-based and Typological Approaches to Linguistic Units, Ono, Tsuyoshi, Ritva Laury and Ryoko Suzuki (eds.), pp. 1–9 | Chapter
2020 Chapter 3. Exploration into a new understanding of ‘zero anaphora’ in Japanese everyday talk Fixed Expressions: Building language structure and social action, Laury, Ritva and Tsuyoshi Ono (eds.), pp. 41–70 | Chapter
This chapter examines the phenomenon called ‘zero anaphora’ in Japanese where syntactic arguments, thought to be projected by the predicates, are assumed to be deleted yet their referents are still tracked. A close inspection of representative narrative and interactive segments reveals that… read more
2019 Questioning the clause as a crosslinguistic unit in grammar and interaction Usage-based and Typological Approaches to Linguistic Units, Ono, Tsuyoshi, Ritva Laury and Ryoko Suzuki (eds.), pp. 364–401 | Article
This paper focuses on ‘clause’, a celebrated structural unit in linguistics, by comparing Finnish and Japanese, two languages which are genetically, typologically, and areally distinct from each other and from English, the language on the basis of which this structural unit has been most… read more
2019 On the notion of unit in the study of human languages Usage-based and Typological Approaches to Linguistic Units, Ono, Tsuyoshi, Ritva Laury and Ryoko Suzuki (eds.), pp. 245–253 | Introduction
2014 Introduction: Situating usage-based (Japanese) linguistics Usage-based Approaches to Japanese Grammar: Towards the understanding of human language, Kabata, Kaori and Tsuyoshi Ono (eds.), pp. 1–10 | Article
2011 Introduction Subordination in Conversation: A cross-linguistic perspective, Laury, Ritva and Ryoko Suzuki (eds.), pp. 1–10 | Article
2011 A note on the emergence of quotative constructions in Japanese conversation Subordination in Conversation: A cross-linguistic perspective, Laury, Ritva and Ryoko Suzuki (eds.), pp. 149–164 | Article
2008 Quoting and topic-marking: Some observations on the quotative tte construction in Japanese Crosslinguistic Studies of Clause Combining: The multifunctionality of conjunctions, Laury, Ritva (ed.), pp. 231–246 | Article
Tte is a frequent marker in Japanese conversation exhibiting multiple discourse functions: as a quotative, topic-marker, utterance-final pragmatic particle, and utterance-initial repair marker. We focus on the relationship between the original quotative function and the topic-marking function found… read more
2007 Historical changes in Japanese: With special focus on subjectivity and intersubjectivity: Introduction Historical Changes in Japanese: Subjectivity and intersubjectivity, Onodera, Noriko O. and Ryoko Suzuki (eds.), pp. 153–169 | Article
2007 (Inter)subjectification in the quotative tte in Japanese conversation: Local change, utterance-ness and verb-ness Historical Changes in Japanese: Subjectivity and intersubjectivity, Onodera, Noriko O. and Ryoko Suzuki (eds.), pp. 207–237 | Article
This article discusses the process of (inter)subjectification in grammatical constructions including tte, which is known as the quotative complementizer in present-day Japanese. About 170 instances of tte constructions that appeared in the conversational data spanning over 200 years are analyzed,… read more
2006 How does ‘reason’ become less and less reasonable? Pragmatics of the utterance-final wake in conversational discourse Emotive Communication in Japanese, Suzuki, Satoko (ed.), pp. 35–51 | Article