Japanese: A Linguistic Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.

The Routledge Course in Japanese Translation. London: Routledge, 2011.

Soliloquy in Japanese and English. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2010. Sample chapter

Nihongo kara mita nihonjin: Shutaisei no gengogaku (with Yukio Hirose). Tokyo: Kaitakusha, 2010.

Elementary Japanese Teacher's Guide (with W. Kambara, N. Komatsu, Y. Konno Baker, K. Nonaka, C. Shibahara, M. Tomizuka, K. Yamaguchi). Boston: Tuttle Publishing. 2006.

Elementary Japanese Volume 2 (with W. Kambara, N. Komatsu, Y. Konno Baker, K. Nonaka, C. Shibahara, M. Tomizuka, K. Yamaguchi). Boston: Tuttle Publishing. 2006.

Elementary Japanese Volume 1 (with W. Kambara, N. Komatsu, Y. Konno Baker, K. Nonaka, C. Shibahara, M. Tomizuka, K. Yamaguchi). Boston: Tuttle Publishing. 2005.

The Proceedings of the 14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (co-editor with J. Ohala, M. Ohala, D. Granville, and A. Bailey). Berkeley: University of California, Berkeley, 1999.

A Study of Japanese Clause Linkage: The Connective -TE in Japanese. Stanford: CSLI and Tokyo: Kurosio Publishers, 1996.

 

Book Chapters

Universality of Frames: Evidence from English-to-Japanese Translation (with Russell Lee-Goldman and Charles J. Fillmore). In Jan-Ola Ostman and Mirjam Fried (eds.), The Socio-Pragmatics of Frame Semantics and Construction Grammar. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, forthcoming.

On expressing measurement and comparison in Japanese and English (with Russell Lee-Goldman, Kyoko Ohara, Seiko Fujii, and Charles J. Fillmore). In Hans C. Boas (ed.), Contrastive Construction Grammars. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 169-200, 2010.

Embedded soliloquy and affective stances in Japanese. In Satoko Suzuki (ed.), Emotive Communication in Japanese. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 209-29, 2006.

Nihongo kara mita nihonjin: Nihonjin wa 'shuudanshugi-teki' ka (with Yukio Hirose). Report of the Special Research Project for the Typological Investigation of Languages and Cultures of the East and West, 153-174. Ibaraki, Japan: University of Tsukuba, 2000.

Tense-aspect controversy revisited: The -TA and -RU forms in Japanese. In Jef Verschueren (ed.), Pragmatics in 1998: Selected Papers from the 6th International Pragmatics Conference. Antwerp: International Pragmatics Association, 225-40, 1999.

Toward a description of TE-linkage in Japanese. In Masayoshi Shibatani and Sandra Thompson (eds.), Grammatical Constructions: Their Form and Meaning, 55-75. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.

 

Journal Articles

Against the social constructionist account of Japanese politeness, Journal of Politeness Research, forthcoming.

Framenet as a resource for paraphrase research (with Russell Lee-Goldman, Albert Kong, and Kimi Akita), Constructions and Frames vol. 3, no. 1, 104-127, 2011.

Soliloquy for linguistic investigation, Studies in Language vol. 35, no. 1, 1-40, 2011.

The sentence-final particles ne and yo in soliloquial Japanese. Pragmatics, vol. 20, no. 1, 71-89, 2010.

Literacy in the foreign language curriculum: A supplementary grammar course for intermediate Japanese instruction (with Wakae Kambara), Japanese Language and Literature 42, 95-122, 2008.

Daikushisu no chuushin o nasu nihonteki jiko (with Yukio Hirose). Gengo vol. 36, no. 2, 74-81, 2007.

What the Japanese language tells us about the alleged Japanese relational self (with Yukio Hirose). Australian Journal of Linguistics, vol. 25, 219-251, 2005.

Nihongo kara mita nihonjin II (with Yukio Hirose). Gengo vol. 30, no. 2, 102-12, 2001.

Nihongo kara mita nihonjin I (with Yukio Hirose). Gengo, vol. 30, no. 1, 86-97, 2001.

The (nonvacuous) semantics of TE-linkage in Japanese. Journal of Pragmatics 25, 763-90, 1996.

Against marking accent locations in Japanese textbooks. Japanese-Language Education Around the Globe 5, 95-103, 1995.

Prototype semantics: A case study of TE K-/IK- constructions in Japanese. Language and Communication, vol. 13, 45-65, 1993.

Fundamental frequency as an acoustic cue to accent perception (with Kazue Hata). Language and Speech 35, 87-98, 1992.

 

Book Reviews

Book review: Japanese Grammar: The Connecting Point, Kimihiko Noura, University Press of America, Lanham, Maryland, 2010. Modern Language Journal, forthcoming.

Book review: Socializing Identities through Speech Style: Learners of Japanese as a Foreign Language, Haruko Minegishi Cook, Multilingual Matters, Bristol, 2008. Modern Language Journal vol. 94, 165-166, 2010.

Book review: Politeness, Richard J. Watts, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2003. International Journal of Sociology of Language, issue 199, 133-138, 2009.

Book Review: The Sound-Symbolic System of Japanese. SHOKO HAMANO. Studies in Japanese Linguistics. Stanford, Cal.: Center for the Study of Language and Information, 1998. Anthropological Linguistics, vol 42, 125-27, 2000.

 

Conference Proceedings

Simultaneous Application of Negative and Positive Politeness. Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, 2008.

Demonstratives in soliloquial Japanese. Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, 93-107, 2007.

A study of soliloquy in Japanese. Proceedings of the 31st Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 145-56, 2006.

Designing a translation course for Japanese majors. Proceedings of the 16th International Japanese/English Translation Conference, 80-84, Chicago, 3-6 June 2005.

Speech-style shifts and intimate exaltation in Japanese. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, 269-284, 2002.

Pitch accent and vowel devoicing in Japanese. Proceedings of the 14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 523-26, 1999.

The function of F0-peak delay in Japanese (with Kazue Hata). Proceedings of the 21st Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 141-51, 1995.

Non-physiological differences between male and female speech: Evidence from the delayed F0 fall phenomenon in Japanese (with Kazue Hata). Proceedings of the 1994 International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 1179-82, 1994.

On the ambiguity between the perfect and the resultative: Evidence from V-te ar- constructions in Japanese. Proceedings of the 18th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 88-99, 1992.

A study of F0 reset in naturally-read utterances in Japanese (with Kazue Hata). Proceedings of the 1992 International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 1239-42, 1992.

The effect of F0 fall rate on accent perception in English (with Kazue Hata). Proceedings of the 17th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 121-29, 1991.

Perceptual shift of accent in English (with Kazue Hata). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 88, Supplement 1, s127, 1990.

Perceptual shift of accent in English (with Kazue Hata). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 88, Supplement 1, s127, 1990.

Questioning vs. identifying: A functional analysis of the [A candidate that which professor recommend was hired?] construction in Japanese. Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 138-49, 1989.

Delayed pitch fall in Japanese: A perceptual experiment (with Kazue Hata). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 84, Supplement 1, s156, 1988.

Delayed pitch fall in Japanese (with Kazue Hata). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 83, Supplement 1, s29, 1988.

Delayed pitch fall phenomenon in Japanese (with Kazue Hata). Proceedings of the Western Conference on Linguistics, 87-100, 1988.

Question pull: A diagnostic test for the complement/adjunct distinction in Japanese. Proceedings of the 14th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 66-77, 1988.

Exploration in speaker normalization (with John Ohala). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 81, Supplement 1, s19, 1987.

 

Conference Presentations
(other than those listed in the Conference Proceedings section above)

Deictic and anaphoric uses of the Japanese demonstratives, ko-so-a. The 7th International Conference on Practical Linguistics of Japanese, San Francisco, March 5-6, 2011.

A study of paraphrasing in terms of FrameNet and frame semantics (with Russell Lee-Goldman, Albert Kong, Kyoko Ohara, Kimi Nakata, Satoru Uchida, and Charles J. Fillmore). The 6th International Conference on Construction Grammar, Prague, Czech Republic, September 3-5, 2010.

Framing causal events in Japanese and English (with Russell Lee-Goldman and Charles J. Fillmore). Paper presented at Fillmore Fest 2009: Frames and Constructions, Berkeley, July 31-August 2, 2009.

Object-centered vs. event-centered encoding: A FrameNet account (with Russell Lee-Goldman and Charles J. Fillmore). Paper presented at the 11th International Pragmatics Conference, Melbourne, Australia, July 13-17, 2009.

Constructions for measurement and comparison in Japanese and English (with Kyoko Hirose, Seiko Fujii, Russell Lee-Goldman, and Charles J. Fillmore). Paper presented at the 5th International Conference on Construction Grammar, 2008.

Japanese honorifics revisited. Paper presented at the 10th International Pragmatics Conference, Göteborg, Sweden, July 8-13, 2007.

Designing supplementary grammar courses for Intermediate Japanese at UC Berkeley (with Wakae Kambara). Paper presented at the Foreign Language Association of Northern Carolifornia Fall Conference, Berkeley, November 11, 2006.

Frame integration, head switching, and translation: RISK in English and Japanese (with Kyoko Hirose, Russell Lee-Goldman, Charles Fillmore). Paper presented at the 4th International Conference on Construction Grammar, Tokyo, September 1-3, 2006.

Is a translation course possible without a theory? Paper presented at the 17th International Japanese/English Translation Conference, Kobe, June 17-18, 2006.

Japanese as a gendered language. Paper presented at the panel discussion, Grammar and Politics in the Language Classroom, Berkeley Language Center, UC Berkeley, 18 November 2005.

Exploration of soliloquy in Japanese. Paper presented at the 9th International Pragmatics Conference, Riva del Garda, Italy, 10-15 July 2005.

On the notion of focus domain in Role and Reference Grammar. Paper presented at the Conference on the Role and Reference Grammar, Summer LSA Institute, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, July 1999.

Linguistic systems and social models: A case study from Japanese. Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 117-28, 1998.

Historical change in Japanese pitch accent. Paper presented at the Symposium on Phonetics and Historical Linguistics, UC Berkeley, April 1996.

Multiple thematic relations and the use of metaphors in case marking: A Role and Reference Grammar analysis of nominative-ablative alteration in Japanese. Paper presented at the International Conference on Functional Approaches to Grammar, Summer LSA Institute, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, July 1995.

 

Other

UC Berkeley. In Yoshifumi Hida (ed.), Nihongo Kyoikugaku Jiten. Tokyo: Ofu, forthcoming.

A tribute to Professor Sige-Yuki Kuroda. Found In Translation http://foundintranslation.berkeley.edu, 2009.

Interview with Charles Fillmore. Rising Generation vol.152, pp. 354-59, 2006.

Amerika ni okeru nihongo-kyooiku jijoo 'Japanese language education in the United States'. Forum lecture handout, Osaka University of Foreign Studies, 9 March 2005.

Japanese language. Microsoft Encarta Reference Library 2002.

Japanese language. Language Teaching at Berkeley: Berkeley Language Center Newsletter vol 18, pp.4-6. Fall 2002.

Nihongo kara mita nihonjin: Nihonjin wa 'shuudanshugi-teki' ka (with Yukio Hirose). Report of the special research project for the typological investigation of languages and cultures of the East and West, 153-74. Ibaraki, Japan: University of Tsukuba, 2000.

Proceedings of the 14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ed. with John Ohala, Manjari Ohala, Daniel Granville, and Ashlee Bailey). Berkeley: University of California, Berkeley, 1999.

Syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of TE-linkage in Japanese. Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 1992.

TE-setsuzoku to ren'yoo-setsuzoku no hikaku kenkyuu (A comparative study of TE-linkage and ren'yoo-linkage). Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. itaku kenkyuu dai-ikki-matsu keeka hookoku (Project Report of the First Term to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp.), 1990.

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