Yoichi Miyamoto
List of John Benjamins publications for which Yoichi Miyamoto plays a role.
Articles
2024 Chapter 20. On the nature of operators in the grammar of L1 Chinese learners of L2 Japanese Multilingual Acquisition and Learning: An ecosystemic view to diversity, Babatsouli, Elena (ed.), pp. 529–555 | Chapter
Under the current generative framework (Chomsky, 1993, 1995), this paper examined the acquisition of wh-questions and conditional sentences in the L2 Japanese grammar of L1 Chinese learners, focusing on whether properties of wh-phrases divergent across languages can be acquired in L2. We used an… read more
2017 Chapter 8. On scope interaction between subject QPs and negation in child grammar Studies in Chinese and Japanese Language Acquisition: In honor of Stephen Crain, Nakayama, Mineharu, Yi-ching Su and Aijun Huang (eds.), pp. 165–196 | Chapter
In adult grammar, languages such as English exhibit scope flexibility between the universal quantifier in the subject position and negation (Horn 1989; Jackendoff 1972), whereas languages such as Japanese and German do not (Lechner 1996; Miyagawa 2010, among others). This paper elucidates… read more
2003 On the existence of scrambling in the grammar of Japanese elementary EFL learners EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 3 (2003), Foster-Cohen, Susan H. and Simona Pekarek Doehler (eds.), pp. 7–27 | Article
This paper examines the representation of English WH-phrase movement in the grammars of Japanese elementary and intermediate EFL learners. It argues that elementary level speakers allow movement of the kind *How manyi did Bill think ti students are smart? and that this is because they treat… read more