Authorship：Lead author,　Corresponding author   Language：English   Publishing type：Part of collection (book)  

This study investigates the grammaticalization of the Japanese ablative marker yori ‘from’ into a comparative standard marker ‘than’ and further into a comparative adverb yori ‘more.’ It is widely known that ablative markers can be grammaticalized into comparative standard markers. However, little is known about the direction of change from comparative marker to comparative adverb. This study takes a corpus-based approach to uncover the process of change. The ablative yori, which had been used since Old Japanese, began to take on the adverbial property ‘more’ in the early twentieth century. While some collocational sequences facilitate the grammaticalization of yori, the overall degree of change turns out to be very slow.

DOI： 10.1075/slcs.232.01shi

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Formulaic expressions pervade everyday language. While this has caught the attention of pedagogically oriented researchers due to its benefit in foreign language instruction, the centrality of formulaic expressions in actual language use, along with their emerging nature and plasticity, has only been marginally recognized and thus remains largely unexplored, especially in languages other than English. We propose to fill this gap by highlighting the cognitive and interactional basis of formulaicity in Japanese. We place full weight on formulaic language in actual use, which includes conversational discourse and social networking services such as Twitter posts. Each contribution highlights how formulaic expressions are based on and shaped by usage in context and how they are deployed in unfolding discourse.

DOI： 10.1515/jjl-2023-2003

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This study examines the discourse-pragmatic functions of the discourse marker (DM, hereafter) jijitsujoo (事実上 or 事實上) ‘as a matter of practice, practically speaking’ in comparison with another DM jijitsu (事実 or 事實) ‘in fact, the fact is’ in the history of Japanese. The gist of the survey results is that, while jijitsu serves to introduce telling evidence for the preceding statement, jijitsujoo reformulates the preceding statement with what the speaker regards to be relevant, while disregarding irrelevant information. In other words, jijitsujoo plays a more subjective role as a DM than jijitsu in that the former can provide the speaker’s own stance toward an immediate topic. These DM functions can be fully fulfilled in sentence-initial position, presumably because they are connective in essence.

DOI： 10.1558/eap.20921

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DOI： 10.1558/eap.21135

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This study deals with issues related to the development of stand-alone adverbial connectors such as totan(-ni), shunkan(-ni), hyoosi(-ni), and yasaki(-ni) in sentence-initial position in the history of Japanese. These adverbial connectors, which can be witnessed from the early twentieth century, developed from the erstwhile head of adnominal clauses through a series of steps, i.e. reanalysis. The adverbial connectors under investigation here serve to anticipate more to come in the following discourse, labeled projectors by Hopper and Thompson (2008). In a nutshell, the emergence of adverbial connectors involves an increase in structural scope over a stretch of discourse.

DOI： 10.1075/slcs.219.04shi

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This study explores the emergence of the sentence-final is all construction in American English. The construction stems from an amalgamation of sequenced sentences (or clauses), i.e. SENTENCE/CLAUSE + (and/but) that is all, giving rise to a type of anacoluthon, i.e. CLAUSE is all. Results of the survey tell us that the sentence- final is all construction begins life in the early twentieth century and demonstrates an upward trend towards the present. Theoretically, the specifiable linear sequence of sentences or clauses in particular pragmatic conditions, i.e. co-text (Halliday 2004), provides partial evidence for a cline of clause integration in grammaticalization: parataxis > hypotaxis > subordination (Hopper and Traugott 2003). This newly-born construction originating in American English is introduced to other varieties of English in the same way as some other innovations, such as be like and the bottom line is (that), have already been used worldwide.

DOI： 10.1515/9783110682564-008

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This study aims to investigate a specific construction in spoken discourse, i.e. that’s (not) the bottom line is (that) and its variant forms, in recent American English. The function of the bottom line is (that) is for a speaker to introduce or anticipate upcoming talk, while that’s the bottom line allows a speaker to summarize his/her preceding statement. These constructions give rise to a new construction when repeatedly used in the following sequence: anaphoric that’s (not) the bottom line followed by cataphoric the bottom line is (that). The newly emerging construction, i.e. that’s (not) the bottom line is (that), is an “apo-koinou” construction, which consists of two clauses which have a word or phrase in common. The remainder of the study then discusses how the notions of “constructional change”, “constructionalization”, and “constructional expansion” may be applied to the individual SN-constructions and to the resulting apo-koinou constructions.

DOI： 10.1075/slcs.198.12shi

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Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (international conference proceedings)   Publisher：John Benjamins  

This study aims to investigate a specific construction in spoken discourse, i.e. that’s (not) the bottom line is (that) and its variant forms, in recent American English. The function of the bottom line is (that) is for a speaker to introduce or anticipate upcoming talk, while that’s the bottom line allows a speaker to summarize his/her preceding statement. These constructions give rise to a new construction when repeatedly used in the following sequence: anaphoric that’s (not) the bottom line followed by cataphoric the bottom line is (that). The newly emerging construction, i.e. that’s (not) the bottom line is (that), is an “apo-koinou” construction, which consists of two clauses which have a word or phrase in common. The remainder of the study then discusses how the notions of “constructional change”, “constructionalization”, and “constructional expansion” may be applied to the individual SN-constructions and to the resulting apo-koinou constructions.

DOI： 10.1075/slcs.198.12shi

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DOI： 10.9793/elsj.33.2_591

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Web of Science

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Other Link： https://www.degruyterbrill.com/search?query=Reijirou+Shibasaki

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The grammatical category of personal pronouns is one of the most researched domains in Japanese as well as in other languages. In fact, works on the genesis and development of Japanese personal pronouns in comparison to those in other languages have been continuously reported long before the notion of grammaticalization was introduced and became an important concept in studies of language change. While preceding studies mostly lay emphasis on the different behaviors between Japanese personal pronouns and the counterparts in European languages, Heine and Song (2010, 2011) exemplify some features common among particular sets of languages i.e. referential shifting between different pronouns, especially from third to second person. As a supplemental survey to Heine and Song (2010, 2011), the present study aims to point out other pathways, especially from first to second person, through which personal pronouns are grammaticalized more in Japanese than in other languages.

DOI： 10.1075/slcs.162.08shi

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DOI： 10.9793/elsj.31.1_79

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KARL-FRANZENS-UNIVERSITÄT GRAZ, UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ, AUSTRIA

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「優秀学術奨励賞」（近代英語協会, 2010年5月）

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Revista de Estudios Culturales de la Universitat Jaume I, Spain

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Web of Science

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The English Linguistic Society of Japan

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Language：English   Publisher：University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)  

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武蔵野書院

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Berkeley Linguistics Society

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Berkeley Linguistics Society

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DOI： 10.1163/9789004730847_013

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Authorship：Lead author   Language：English   Publishing type：Part of collection (book)   Publisher：BRILL  

DOI： 10.1163/9789004730847_009

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DOI： 10.1163/9789004730847_007

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Publisher：BRILL  

DOI： 10.1163/9789004730847

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Authorship：Lead author,　Corresponding author   Language：Japanese   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)  

DOI： 10.60414/pragmatics.26.0_112

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DOI： 10.1515/jjl-2023-2002

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This study examines the development of the projector jijitsu ‘the fact is, in fact’ from the earlier nominal predicate jijitsu-nari/dearu/da/desu/dearimasu (fact-copulative verb) in Modern through Present-day Japanese. Evidence from corpus studies suggests that jijitsu undergoes both formal and functional changes from the inside of the sentence as a nominal predicate to the outside of the sentence as a projector, connecting preceding and following information, forming a larger discourse unit. This change is characteristic of ‘constructionalization’ in the sense of Traugott and Trousdale (2013). The nominal predicate use of jijitsu inside the sentence also goes through several formal changes in the choice of copulative verbs over time, i.e. ‘constructional changes’. Constructionalization attested in the history of jijitsu echoes the historical processes of similar constructions in European languages, which means that language users have the potential to make ‘discourse-pragmatic’ sense of a given context, and such a newly emergent sense is likely to be formally realized at the edge of a sentence.

DOI： 10.1075/slcs.202.14shi

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Language：Japanese   Publisher：Hitsuzi Syobo Publishing  

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Authorship：Lead author,　Corresponding author   Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (international conference proceedings)   Publisher：Berkeley Linguistics Society  

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Language：Japanese   Publisher：国立国語研究所  

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CiNii Research

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Language：Japanese   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：The Pragmatics Society of Japan  

CiNii Research

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CiNii Research

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CiNii Research

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沖縄外国文学会

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This study is aimed to probe into one type of pronominal word formation such as me-ward, us-ward, you-ward, thee-ward, him-ward, her-ward and them-ward, including all of their variant forms. Although having been used for a prolonged period of time from the early 13th century, they have gone unnoticed in English historical linguistics. The ward(s) construction started with locative adverbs as the head of the construction, expanding the range of the headwords to prepositions, proper and identifiable nouns, pronouns, and nonce words. While all the constructional examples except the pronoun-ward(s) construction are relatively productive and stable albeit being jocular and ad hoc at times, the pronoun-ward(s) construction with any grammatical person has been fairly infrequent throughout history. As a consequence, the infrequent occurrence of the pronoun-ward(s) construction impeded the global constructional expansion, failing in establishing the solid constructional stability and falling into disuse in the 20th century.

DOI： 10.1075/cilt.325.13shi

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沖縄外国文学会

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This study argues for a reinterpretation of the linguistic evolution of personal pronouns in the history of Japanese, with special focus on the second person form omae. While prior research has found certain syntactic and semantic differences between Japanese pronouns and Western counterparts, no research projects have analyzed Japanese pronouns from the perspective of grammatical distribution. This study takes a frequency-based approach to reveal the distributional patterns of omae at several historical stages, and shows that frequency serves as a cause of semantic change, providing evidence for the correlations between referential shifting and grammatical roles on the one hand and between frequency and semantic depreciation on the other.

DOI： 10.1075/tsl.94.08shi

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Hankookmunhwasa, Korea

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沖縄外国文学会

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日本認知言語学会

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Linguistic Society of Hong Kong

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Linguistic Society of Korea

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文進印刷株式会社

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文進印刷株式会社

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Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)  

沖縄外国文学会

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Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (international conference proceedings)  

Linguistics Society of Korea

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沖縄国際大学総合文化学部英米言語文化学科

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科学研究費補助金基盤研究(B)報告書(平成15年度～平成18年度, 代表:青木三郎 (筑波大学))

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Linguistics Society of Korea

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沖縄国際大学総合文化学部英米言語文化学科

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大修館書店

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Authorship：Lead author,　Corresponding author   Language：English   Publishing type：Part of collection (book)   Publisher：Mouton de Gruyter  

Edited by Bernhard Hurch
In collaboration with Veronika Mattes

DOI： 10.1515/9783110911466.283

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Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

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関西言語学会

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関西言語学会

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Language：Japanese  

日本認知科学会

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Summa Cum Laude

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Rikkyo University

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Language：Japanese  

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This study investigates the grammaticalization of the Japanese ablative marker <I>yori </I>‘from’ into a comparative standard marker ‘than’ and further into a comparative adverb <I>yori </I>‘more.’ It is widely known that ablative markers can be grammaticalized into comparative standard markers. However, little is known about the direction of change from comparative marker to comparative adverb. This study takes a corpus-based approach to uncover the process of change. The ablative <I>yori</I>, which had been used since Old Japanese, began to take on the adverbial property ‘more’ in the early twentieth century. While some collocational sequences facilitate the grammaticalization of <I>yori</I>, the overall degree of change turns out to be very slow.

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Language：Japanese   Book type：Scholarly book

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Responsible for pages：101-124   Language：English  

This study deals with issues related to the development of stand-alone adverbial connectors such as <I>totan(-ni), shunkan(-ni), hyoosi(-ni)</I>, and<I> yasaki(-ni)</I> in sentence-initial position in the history of Japanese. These adverbial connectors, which can be witnessed from the early twentieth century, developed from the erstwhile head of adnominal clauses through a series of steps, i.e. reanalysis. The adverbial connectors under investigation here serve to anticipate more to come in the following discourse, labeled projectors by Hopper and Thompson (2008). In a nutshell, the emergence of adverbial connectors involves an increase in structural scope over a stretch of discourse.

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Responsible for pages：171-191   Language：English  

This study explores the emergence of the sentence-final is all construction in American English. The construction stems from an amalgamation of sequenced sentences (or clauses), i.e. SENTENCE/CLAUSE + (and/but) that is all, giving rise to a type of anacoluthon, i.e. CLAUSE is all. Results of the survey tell us that the sentence- final is all construction begins life in the early twentieth century and demonstrates an upward trend towards the present. Theoretically, the specifiable linear sequence of sentences or clauses in particular pragmatic conditions, i.e. co-text (Halliday 2004), provides partial evidence for a cline of clause integration in grammaticalization: parataxis > hypotaxis > subordination (Hopper and Traugott 2003). This newly-born construction originating in American English is introduced to other varieties of English in the same way as some other innovations, such as be like and the bottom line is (that), have already been used worldwide.

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Responsible for pages：333-360   Language：English  

This study examines the development of the projector jijitsu ‘the fact is, in fact’ from the earlier nominal predicate jijitsu-nari/dearu/da/desu/dearimasu (fact-copulative verb) in Modern through Present-day Japanese. Evidence from corpus studies suggests that jijitsu undergoes both formal and functional changes from the inside of the sentence as a nominal predicate to the outside of the sentence as a projector, connecting preceding and following information, forming a larger discourse unit. Constructionalization attested in the history of jijitsu echoes the historical processes of similar constructions in European languages, which means that language users have the potential to make ‘discourse-pragmatic’ sense of a given context, and such a newly emergent sense is likely to be formally realized at the edge of a sentence. DOI 10.1075/slcs.202.14shi

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Total pages：256   Responsible for pages：201-221   Language：Japanese  

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This study is aimed to probe into one type of pronominal word formation such as me-ward, us-ward, you-ward, thee-ward, him-ward, her-ward and them-ward, including all of their variant forms. Although having been used for a prolonged period of time from the early 13th century, they have gone unnoticed in English historical linguistics. The ward(s) construction started with locative adverbs as the head of the construction, expanding the range of the headwords to prepositions, proper and identifiable nouns, pronouns, and nonce words. While all the constructional examples except the pronoun-ward(s) construction are relatively productive and stable albeit being jocular and ad hoc at times, the pronoun-ward(s) construction with any grammatical person has been fairly infrequent throughout history.

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This study argues for a reinterpretation of the linguistic evolution of personal pronouns in the history of Japanese, with special focus on the second person form omae. While prior research has found certain syntactic and semantic differences between Japanese pronouns and Western counterparts, no research projects have analyzed Japanese pronouns from the perspective of grammatical distribution. This study takes a frequency-based approach to reveal the distributional patterns of omae at several historical stages, and shows that frequency serves as a cause of semantic change, providing evidence for the correlations between referential shifting and grammatical roles on the one hand and between frequency and semantic depreciation on the other.

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Conclusion

In: The Emergence of Pragmatic Markers from Chinese Compounds in Chinese, Japanese and Korean

Authors: Yuko Higashiizumi and Reijirou Shibasaki

Type: Chapter

Pages: 306–311

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004730847_013

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In Present Day Japanese, one conventionalized expression, i.e. ya-ina-ya, is used almost exclusively to introduce a temporal adverbial clause (‘as soon as…’), regardless of whether it is written in kanji or in hiragana. On the other hand, amid the grammaticalization from the complementizer function (i.e. ‘whether or not’) to the temporal adverbial function (i.e. ‘as soon as…’) in Early Modern Japanese through Modern Japanese, these two usages are found to have been scribed differently from each other in the majority of cases. However, shortly after these periods, the shift from the complementizer to temporal adverbial function had been almost complete except compositions written in literary Japanese, and such an orthographic division of labor has gone according to the corpus-based surveys. Since these phenomena have not been addressed even in the well-known studies on literally translation of or language contact with Western languages, it deserves a full-scale investigation.

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Formulaic Expressions and Formulaicity in the History of English 10

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Studies in the history of the English language 10

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Presented to Yoshihiro Yoshino and Kazuyoshi Yamanouchi on the occasion of their seventy-seventh birthday

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Venue：University of Tsukuba   Country/Region：Japan  

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Event date： 2022.10

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Venue：Sun Yat-sen University, China   Country/Region：China  

Kasper Boye (Copenhagen University)
Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen (Manchester University)
Bernd Heine (University of Koln)
Gunther Kaltenböck & Elnora Ten Wolde (University of Graz)
Tania Kuteva (Düsseldorf University)
Haiping Long (Sun Yat-sen University)
Seongha Rhee (Mahidol University)
Reijirou Shibasaki (Meiji University)

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Venue：Norwegian Graduate Researcher School in Linguistics and Philology, Norway   Country/Region：Norway  

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Venue：University of Eastern Finland (Joensuu, Finland)  

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Venue：University of Milan (Milano, Italy)   Country/Region：Italy  

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Venue：Kyoto University of Foreign Studies   Country/Region：Japan  

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Venue：University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain   Country/Region：Spain  

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Venue：University of Queensland (Brisbane, AU)   Country/Region：Australia  

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Venue：University of Queensland (Brisbane, AU)   Country/Region：Austria  

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Venue：Meiji University at Nakano   Country/Region：Japan  

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Event date： 2025.6

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Venue：The University of Tokyo, Hongo Campus   Country/Region：Japan  

Workshop: More thoughts on discourse-pragmatic markers in the history of English
Laurel J. Brinton (University of British Columbia): Presenter
Erina Iwai (Shinshu University): Presenter
Reijirou Shibasaki (Meiji University): Presenter/Moderator
Toshio Ohori (Keio University): Discussant

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Venue：Online   Country/Region：Russian Federation  

Conversations with readers and authors - 11
Posted: 02.04.2025
Dear colleagues,

Russian Journal of Linguistics continues the series of webinars "Conversations with readers and authors". We are happy to invite you to discuss the publications in the Special Issue Discourse-pragmatic markers of (inter)subjective stance in Asian languages: With special focus on Chinese etymons. The webinar takes place 8 April 2025 in Teams at 10 am London GMT, 12.00 Moscow, 4 pm Bangkok and Hanoi, 5 pm Beijing & Macau, 6 pm Seul and Tokyo. For RUDN participants: Room 848.

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Event date： 2024.11

Language：Japanese   Presentation type：Oral presentation (invited, special)  

Venue：Nagoya University (Higashiyama Campus)  

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Event date： 2023.7

Language：English   Presentation type：Symposium, workshop panel (nominated)  

Venue：Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)   Country/Region：Belgium  

<B>Abstract </B>(short version):
This study traces the development of the adverb shin-ni ‘truly’, the hybrid form consisting of the Sino-Japanese noun shin 真 ‘truth’ and the adverbializer -ni of Japanese origin, in the history of Japanese, drawing on various historical and contemporary corpora. It has previously been observed that some words with the meaning “TRUE (‘true’, ‘real’)” have developed into “INTENSIVE” in Chinese, English, French, Hungarian, etc. (Kuteva et al. 2019: 443). This paper presents a case study of the word with the Chinese etymon 真/眞 in Japanese to contribute to a discussion of whether or not words that share the same Chinese etymon are grammaticalized into discourse-pragmatic markers similarly across some Asian languages.

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Event date： 2023.7

Language：English   Presentation type：Symposium, workshop panel (nominated)  

Venue：Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)   Country/Region：Belgium  

<B>Abstract </B>(short version):
This study investigates the historical development of the Sino-Japanese (SJ, hereafter) lexeme shunkan 瞬間 from a clause-internal adverbial to a clause-external discourse marker (DM, hereafter) in Japanese, from the perspective of grammaticalization. SJ lexemes have usually been used in formal registers such as Buddhism, Confucian notions, politics, legislation and administration, not constituting everyday spoken language. Given that studies on DMs have been based on spoken-oriented discourse materials, typically in conversation and historically in drama scripts (e.g., Hansen 1998; Waltereit 2011), we can propose that the written-oriented grammaticalization seen in East Asian languages is different in essence from any spoken-contact-based grammaticalization reported in many preceding studies. The data used for this survey are retrieved from a variety of corpora.

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Event date： 2023.3

Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

Venue：Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, Canada)   Country/Region：Canada  

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Event date： 2023.1

Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

Given the still uncertain sanitary context, CBDA-7 will take the form of an online symposium, spread over three non-consecutive days in January 2023 (Friday 13, 20 and 27).

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Event date： 2022.8

Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

Country/Region：Korea, Republic of  

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Event date： 2022.3

Language：Japanese   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

Venue：Online   Country/Region：Japan  

“Symposium on Formulaicity in Interactional Discourse 2022” (ONLINE)
March 9th (Wed), 2022 @ Japan Standard Time
Afternoon session with project members’ research reports (Language: Japanese)

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Event date： 2021.8

Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

Venue：Online   Country/Region：Japan  

Presented on Aug 29, 2021

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Event date： 2021.8

Language：Japanese   Presentation type：Symposium, workshop panel (nominated)  

Country/Region：Japan  

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Event date： 2021.8

Language：Japanese   Presentation type：Symposium, workshop panel (nominated)  

Country/Region：Japan  

Convener/Presenter: Reijirou Shibasaki (Meiji University)
Presenter: Ryuichi Hotta (Keio University)
Discussant: Takuto Watanabe (Kwanseigakuin University)

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Event date： 2021.3

Language：Japanese   Presentation type：Symposium, workshop panel (nominated)  

Venue：online   Country/Region：Japan  

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Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

Venue：Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea (October 16-17, 2020)  

http://linguistlist.org/confservices/customhome.cfm?Emeetingid=6102JA445876485840A050441
Presented on Oct 16, 2020 (online)

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Language：English   Presentation type：Symposium, workshop panel (nominated)  

Venue：University of the Ryukyus (online)  

Lecture 1: Reijirou Shibasaki (Meiji University)
Lecture 2: Takuto Watanabe (Kwansei Gakuin University)
Lecture 3: Jerzy Nykiel (University of Bergen, Norway)
Lecture 4: Fuyo Osawa (Hosei University)
Lecture 5: Yoshitaka Kozuka (Aichi University of Education)

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Language：Japanese   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

Venue：OTSUMA WOMEN‘S UNIVERSITY  

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Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

Venue：Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS)  

Date: December 8th, 2019
Presenters
1. Toshihide Nakayama (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
2. Tsuyoshi Ono (University of Alberta, Canada)
3. Ryoko Suzuki (Keio University)
4. Marja-Liisa Helasvuo (University of Turku, Finland)
5. Tomoyuki Tsuchiya (Kyushu University)
6. Tomoko Endo (University of Tokyo) and Daisuke Yokomori (Kyushu University)
7. Reijiro Shibasaki (Meiji University)
8. Hiroko Takanashi (Japan Women’s University)
9. Toshihide Nakayama (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

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Language：Japanese   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

Venue：Tohoku University  

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Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

Venue：Kwansei Gakuin University, Nishinomiya, Japan  

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Language：English   Presentation type：Symposium, workshop panel (public)  

Venue：The Hong Kong Polytechnic University  

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Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

Venue：Bloomington, U.S.A.  

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Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (keynote)  

Venue：University of Reuen (Université de Rouen)  

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Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (keynote)  

Venue：University of Reuen (Université de Rouen)  

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Language：Japanese   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

Venue：Tohoku University, Kawauchi Campus  

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Language：Japanese   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

Venue：University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), Nov. 29 to Dec 1, 2018  

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Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

Venue：University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)  

Nov 29 to Dec 1, 2018

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Language：Japanese   Presentation type：Symposium, workshop panel (nominated)  

Venue：November 28 (Wed) 1-5:30 PM @ Royce 306, UCLA  

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Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

Venue：University of Alberta, Canada  

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Language：English   Presentation type：Poster presentation  

Venue：Waseda University  

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Language：Japanese   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

Venue：Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA, AA-ken), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS)  

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Language：Japanese   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

Venue：Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA,AA-ken), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS)  

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Language：Japanese   Presentation type：Symposium, workshop panel (public)  

Venue：Tohoku University (Sendai, Japan)  

Symposium: Formulaic expressions in the history of English

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Language：Japanese   Presentation type：Oral presentation (invited, special)  

Venue：Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo at Komaba  

26 October 2017

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Language：English   Presentation type：Poster presentation  

Venue：University of Hawai'i at Manoa, in Honolulu, Hawai'i  

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Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

Venue：Building 1, Room 211, Seikei University, Sept. 6, 2017  

Marja-Liisa Helasvuo (Turku University)
"Fixed expressions and the verb <I>ajatella </I> 'think' in Finnish conversation"
Yuko Nomura (Juntendo University)
"The use of Verb <I>omou </I>(think) in Conversation"
Reijiro Shibasaki (Meiji University)
"A study of present progressive forms in projector constructions:
With attention to <I>wh</I>-clefts in American English"
Tomoko Endo (Seikei University) and Daisuke Yokomori (Kyushu University)
"Fixed expressions for cognitive troubles in Japanese conversation"

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Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

Venue：Aoyama Gakuin University (Tokyo, Japan)  

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Language：English   Presentation type：Symposium, workshop panel (public)  

Venue：Belfast, Northern Ireland, 16-21 July 2017  

PANEL: <I>Sequentiality and Constructionalization of Discourse-Pragmatic Markers</I>

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Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

Venue：Meiji University at Nakano  

Plenary speakers: Dániel Z. Kádár (University of Huddersfield, UK), Sylvie Hancil (University of Rouen, France)

Presenters: Naoko Osuka (Meiji University), Michi Shiina (Hosei University) , Reijirou Shibasaki (Meiji University), Yuko Higashiizumi (Tokyo Gakugei University), Hiroshi Ohashi (Kyushu University)

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Language：Japanese   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

Venue：Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University  

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Language：English   Presentation type：Symposium, workshop panel (public)  

Venue：Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland, 18-21, September 2016  

Workshop: <I>Grammar-discourse-context: Widening the horizon for a theory of grammatical change</I> (by Ruth Möhlig-Falke and Kristin Bech)

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Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

Venue：Hokusei Gakuen University (Sapporo, Japan)  

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Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

Venue：Rouen, France, 25-27 Apr. 2016  

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Language：Japanese   Presentation type：Oral presentation (invited, special)  

Venue：京都工芸繊維大学  

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Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

Venue：West Lafayette, Indiana, United States  

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Language：Japanese   Presentation type：Symposium, workshop panel (nominated)  

Venue：Kansai Gaidai University at Nakamiya  

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Language：Japanese   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

Venue：国立国語研究所（NINJAL）  

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Language：Japanese   Presentation type：Symposium, workshop panel (nominated)  

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Language：Japanese   Presentation type：Symposium, workshop panel (nominated)  

Venue：Antwerp, Belgium  

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Language：Japanese   Presentation type：Poster presentation  

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Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

WORKSHOP: Clauses on the Move:
A Historical-Contrastive Approach to English and German
(Convener: Reijirou SHIBASAKI (Meiji University), Hitomi OTSUKA (University of Bremen), Yuko HIGASHIIZUMI (Tokyo Gakugei University), Jerzy NYKIEL (University of Silesia))

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Language：Japanese   Presentation type：Oral presentation (invited, special)  

Venue：Rikkyo (St. Paul) University  

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Language：Japanese   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

Venue：Kumamotogakuen University  

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Language：Japanese   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

http://homepage2.nifty.com/jcla/

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Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

http://www.isle3.uzh.ch/index.html

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Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

http://www.arts.kuleuven.be/ling/ICEHL18

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Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

WORKSHOP: More thoughts on ‘clause’ from a historical-pragmatic perspective
Convener: Reijirou SHIBASAKI (Meiji University)
Yuko HIGASHIIZUMI (Tokyo Gakugei University)
Ryoko SUZUKI (Keio University)

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Language：Japanese   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

慫慂発表

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Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

Organizing Workshop: Person Forms Across Time and Space: Divergence or Convergence

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Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

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Language：Japanese   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

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Language：English   Presentation type：Poster presentation  

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Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

Workshop: Language, Communication and Intersubjectivity, organized by Makiko Takekuro (Waseda University)

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Workshop: Explorations of conversational discourse in Okinawa: Grammar, interaction and cognition (organized by Reijirou Shibasaki), The 21st Pacific Science Congress (PSC21)

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Language：Japanese   Presentation type：Oral presentation (invited, special)  

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Plenary talk

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Audience： College students,　Graduate students,　Teachers,　Researchesrs,　Scientific

Type：Seminar, workshop

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Type：Lecture

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Type：Promotional material

pp. 5-6

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Audience： Researchesrs

Type：Lecture

Plenary speakers: Bernd Heine, Peter Auer, Richard Waltereit and Reijirou Shibasaki

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Audience： Teachers,　Researchesrs,　General,　Scientific

Type：Seminar, workshop

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Type：Other

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Type：Other

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Audience： Teachers,　General

Type：Certification seminar

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Audience： College students,　Graduate students,　Teachers,　Researchesrs,　General,　Scientific

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Type：Academic society, research group, etc. 

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Type：Scientific advice/Review 

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