Tsuyoshi Ono
Biographic Data
| ID | 659177 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tsuyoshi Ono |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tsuyoshi |
| FAMILY NAME | Ono |
| SIGNATURE | ONO T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7881-7318 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Atypicality of Verb-Final Clauses in Japanese Conversation: Toward a Speaker-Centered Characterization of Japanese Clausal Syntax
The so-called canonical clause, consisting of case-marked NPs and a final finite verb, has played a central role in discussions of Japanese for the past several decades. The current study explores the nature of such clauses in everyday Japanese conversation. Everyday conversation is considered the most fundamental form of language, and large-scale corpora of Japanese everyday conversation have only become available in recent years, enabling proje…
What do speakers do with predicate nominal constructions in English conversation
In the tradition of Interactional Linguistics, we show how speakers make use of Predicate Nominal Constructions (PNCs) in American English conversation. We first provide a grammatical profile of PNCs as a highly frequent type of low-transitive clause in actual everyday use. We then bring evidence to show that, functionally, speakers use PNCs specifically to do two types of more semantic work (to identify or categorize a referent) and two types of…
Metaverse technologies can foster an inclusive society
Verb repetition as a template for reactive tokens in Japanese everyday talk
A systematic investigation into the first large scale Japanese conversation corpus reveals that repeated verbs (RVs) occurring in the response position tend to involve frequently used verbs such as aru ‘to exist’ and chigau ‘to differ’ (e.g., aru aru aru ). Further, longer RVs, those involving more repetition, are even more likely to occur with frequent verbs. In RVs, we find the verb having lost some of its lexical meaning and phonological subst…
Establishing a pseudo-cleft construction in Japanese: A perspective from everyday conversation
Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic Exacerbation of Depressive Symptoms for Social Frailty from the Orange Registry
The increase in the rate of transition of elderly individuals to the social frailty group could have been related to the implementation of the stay-at-home order as part of the countermeasures for COVID-19. Furthermore, the increased prevalence of depressive symptoms associated with the stay-at-home order could also have influenced the increase in the prevalence of social frailty during the COVID-19 pandemic
Incrementing’ in conversation. A comparison of practices in English, German and Japanese
This cross-linguistic study focuses on ways in which conversationalists speak beyond a point of possible turn completion in conversation, specifically on turn extensions which are grammatically dependent, backward-looking and extend the prior action. It argues that further distinctions can be made in terms of whether the extension is prosodically integrated with the prior unit, its host, ( Non-add-on ) or not, and in terms of whether it repairs s…
Increments in cross-linguistic perspective: Introductory remarks
A new area of research called Interactional Linguistics highlights linguistic structure in relation to naturally occurring interaction and is characterized by its cross-linguistic orientation. As a contribution to this new area of research, the present volume is a collection of papers with a cross-linguistic focus; they examine what is often called an ‘increment’, a grammatical extension of the already completed unit. In this paper, we briefly di…
Voiceless nasals in the Ikema dialect of Miyako Ryukyuan
Voiceless nasal consonants are typologically rare in the world’s languages. The present study investigates the acoustic realization of reported voiceless nasals in the Miyako Ryukyuan dialect Ikema. Voiceless nasals in Ikema occur word-initially and word-medially as part of a geminate or consonant cluster, and are phonemically distinct from modal voiced nasals. Initial observation of collected recordings revealed many instances of the voiceless p…
Questioning the clause as a crosslinguistic unit in grammar and interaction
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 typically discussed. We first examine how structural units including the clause have been discussed in the literature on Finnish and Japanese. We will then exami…
On the notion of unit in the study of human languages
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Can an Android Persuade You
The use of frequent verbs as reactive tokens in Japanese everyday talk: Formulaicity, florescence, and grammaticization
Negative scope, temporality, fixedness, and right- and left-branching: Implications for typology and cognitive processing
‘Negative scope’ concerns what it is that is negated in an utterance with a negative morpheme. With English and Japanese conversational data, we show that for an English speaker, calculating negative scope requires that recipients incrementally keep track of all the material in the clause that follows the negative morpheme, which comes early in the clause. In contrast, the negative morpheme comes late in the clause in Japanese; thus it would seem…
The limits of grammar: Clause combining in Finnish and Japanese conversation
Our paper concerns the grammar of clause combining in Finnish and Japanese conversation. We consider the patterns of clause combining in our data and focus on the verbal and non-verbal cues which allow participants to determine whether, after the end of a clause-sized unit, the turn will end or continue with another clause-sized unit, resulting in a clause combination. We conclude that morphosyntax alone cannot account for the patterns found in o…
Turns and Increments: A Comparative Perspective
Recent years have seen a surge of interest in “increments” among students of conversational interaction. This article first outlines “incrementing” as an analytical problem (i.e., as turn constructional unit [TCU] extensions) by tracing its origins back to Sacks, Schegloff, and Jefferson's (1974) famous turn-taking article. Then, the article summarizes and reviews Schegloff's recent publications and presentations, which revisited this problem, as…
Japanese Negotiation Through Emerging Final Particles in Everyday Talk
This article focuses on the grammar of Japanese kara ‘because/so’ and kedo ‘but’, traditionally understood as conjunctive particles whose function is to mark a “subordinate” clause and connect it to a following “main” clause. This article shows that, in conversation, these forms are often used turn-finally without an apparent main clause and that they are grammaticizing into final particles functioning to yield a turn. Then lexicalized uses of ka…
Data is Data and Model is Model: You Don't Discard the Data that Doesn't Fit Your Model
Data is data and model is model: You don’t discard the data that doesn’t fit your model!* Ritva Laury and Tsuyoshi Ono We have read with great interest the article published by Frederick Newmeyer in a recent issue of Language (Newmeyer 2003). As discourse-functional grammarians, we feel compelled to respond to several of N’s arguments, and we also question the nature and use of data in the article. As in his previous publications (e.g. Newmeyer 1…
Cooperative embodied communication emerged by interactive humanoid robots
Japanese (w)atashi/ore/boku I: Theyre not just pronouns
Japanese first-person “pronouns” in conversation are found not to be good clausal arguments and not to be used just for reference. They do not form a unitary category, but rather exhibit three separate construction-specific uses, each with its own set of grammatical, semantic, pragmatic, and prosodic properties, thus supporting nonmodular representations which can capture the way such form‐function amalgams are used by Japanese speakers. These co…
The Occurrence and Non-Occurrence of the Japanese Direct Object Marker o in Conversation
Although in written Japanese grammatical relations such as subject and object are marked by postpositional particles, in informal conversation they may occur without any particles. This paper examines the occurrence and non-occurrence of the direct object marker o in spontaneous informal conversation and clarifies that the choice of object marking is a device to facilitate selective focusing on information. Our study shows that zero-marking is th…
The Pragmatic Nature of the So-Called Subject Marker Ga in Japanese: Evidence from Conversation
Since the inception of modern approaches to grammar, Japanese ga has been treated as a marker indicating the grammatical relation `subject.' If this is an accurate characterization of ga, then we would expect ga to occur to mark a grammatical category consisting of `A' (transitive subject) and `S' (intransitive subject) (Comrie, 1978; Dixon, 1979). Our examination of the contexts in which ga is actually used in everyday Japanese conversations sho…
Deconstructing “Zero Anaphora” in Japanese
Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Pragmatics and Grammatical Structure (1997)
Unattached NPs in English Conversation
Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session Dedicated to the Contributions of Charles J. Fillmore (1994)
The Development of a Marker of Speaker’s Attitude: The Pragmatic Use of the Japanese Grammaticized Verb shimau in Conversation
Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on The Place of Morphology in a Grammar (1992), pp. 204-213
Cooperative embodied communication emerged by interactive humanoid robots
The Pragmatic Nature of the So-Called Subject Marker Ga in Japanese: Evidence from Conversation
Since the inception of modern approaches to grammar, Japanese ga has been treated as a marker indicating the grammatical relation `subject.' If this is an accurate characterization of ga, then we would expect ga to occur to mark a grammatical category consisting of `A' (transitive subject) and `S' (intransitive subject) (Comrie, 1978; Dixon, 1979). Our examination of the contexts in which ga is actually used in everyday Japanese conversations sho…
Japanese Negotiation Through Emerging Final Particles in Everyday Talk
This article focuses on the grammar of Japanese kara ‘because/so’ and kedo ‘but’, traditionally understood as conjunctive particles whose function is to mark a “subordinate” clause and connect it to a following “main” clause. This article shows that, in conversation, these forms are often used turn-finally without an apparent main clause and that they are grammaticizing into final particles functioning to yield a turn. Then lexicalized uses of ka…
Turns and Increments: A Comparative Perspective
Recent years have seen a surge of interest in “increments” among students of conversational interaction. This article first outlines “incrementing” as an analytical problem (i.e., as turn constructional unit [TCU] extensions) by tracing its origins back to Sacks, Schegloff, and Jefferson's (1974) famous turn-taking article. Then, the article summarizes and reviews Schegloff's recent publications and presentations, which revisited this problem, as…
The grammaticization of the Japanese verbs oku and shimau
The use of frequent verbs as reactive tokens in Japanese everyday talk: Formulaicity, florescence, and grammaticization
Voiceless nasals in the Ikema dialect of Miyako Ryukyuan
Voiceless nasal consonants are typologically rare in the world’s languages. The present study investigates the acoustic realization of reported voiceless nasals in the Miyako Ryukyuan dialect Ikema. Voiceless nasals in Ikema occur word-initially and word-medially as part of a geminate or consonant cluster, and are phonemically distinct from modal voiced nasals. Initial observation of collected recordings revealed many instances of the voiceless p…
Neuronal responses in rat lateral hypothalamus during amino acid ingestion
TE, I , and RU Clauses in Japanese Recipes: A Quantitative Study
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The Development of a Marker of Speaker’s Attitude: The Pragmatic Use of the Japanese Grammaticized Verb shimau in Conversation
Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on The Place of Morphology in a Grammar (1992), pp. 204-213
The grammaticization of the Japanese verbs oku and shimau
Unattached NPs in English Conversation
Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session Dedicated to the Contributions of Charles J. Fillmore (1994)
Deconstructing “Zero Anaphora” in Japanese
Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Pragmatics and Grammatical Structure (1997)
The Occurrence and Non-Occurrence of the Japanese Direct Object Marker o in Conversation
Although in written Japanese grammatical relations such as subject and object are marked by postpositional particles, in informal conversation they may occur without any particles. This paper examines the occurrence and non-occurrence of the direct object marker o in spontaneous informal conversation and clarifies that the choice of object marking is a device to facilitate selective focusing on information. Our study shows that zero-marking is th…
The Pragmatic Nature of the So-Called Subject Marker Ga in Japanese: Evidence from Conversation
Since the inception of modern approaches to grammar, Japanese ga has been treated as a marker indicating the grammatical relation `subject.' If this is an accurate characterization of ga, then we would expect ga to occur to mark a grammatical category consisting of `A' (transitive subject) and `S' (intransitive subject) (Comrie, 1978; Dixon, 1979). Our examination of the contexts in which ga is actually used in everyday Japanese conversations sho…
Japanese (w)atashi/ore/boku I: Theyre not just pronouns
Japanese first-person “pronouns” in conversation are found not to be good clausal arguments and not to be used just for reference. They do not form a unitary category, but rather exhibit three separate construction-specific uses, each with its own set of grammatical, semantic, pragmatic, and prosodic properties, thus supporting nonmodular representations which can capture the way such form‐function amalgams are used by Japanese speakers. These co…
Cooperative embodied communication emerged by interactive humanoid robots
Data is Data and Model is Model: You Don't Discard the Data that Doesn't Fit Your Model
Data is data and model is model: You don’t discard the data that doesn’t fit your model!* Ritva Laury and Tsuyoshi Ono We have read with great interest the article published by Frederick Newmeyer in a recent issue of Language (Newmeyer 2003). As discourse-functional grammarians, we feel compelled to respond to several of N’s arguments, and we also question the nature and use of data in the article. As in his previous publications (e.g. Newmeyer 1…
Turns and Increments: A Comparative Perspective
Recent years have seen a surge of interest in “increments” among students of conversational interaction. This article first outlines “incrementing” as an analytical problem (i.e., as turn constructional unit [TCU] extensions) by tracing its origins back to Sacks, Schegloff, and Jefferson's (1974) famous turn-taking article. Then, the article summarizes and reviews Schegloff's recent publications and presentations, which revisited this problem, as…
Japanese Negotiation Through Emerging Final Particles in Everyday Talk
This article focuses on the grammar of Japanese kara ‘because/so’ and kedo ‘but’, traditionally understood as conjunctive particles whose function is to mark a “subordinate” clause and connect it to a following “main” clause. This article shows that, in conversation, these forms are often used turn-finally without an apparent main clause and that they are grammaticizing into final particles functioning to yield a turn. Then lexicalized uses of ka…
The limits of grammar: Clause combining in Finnish and Japanese conversation
Our paper concerns the grammar of clause combining in Finnish and Japanese conversation. We consider the patterns of clause combining in our data and focus on the verbal and non-verbal cues which allow participants to determine whether, after the end of a clause-sized unit, the turn will end or continue with another clause-sized unit, resulting in a clause combination. We conclude that morphosyntax alone cannot account for the patterns found in o…
Negative scope, temporality, fixedness, and right- and left-branching: Implications for typology and cognitive processing
‘Negative scope’ concerns what it is that is negated in an utterance with a negative morpheme. With English and Japanese conversational data, we show that for an English speaker, calculating negative scope requires that recipients incrementally keep track of all the material in the clause that follows the negative morpheme, which comes early in the clause. In contrast, the negative morpheme comes late in the clause in Japanese; thus it would seem…
Can an Android Persuade You
The use of frequent verbs as reactive tokens in Japanese everyday talk: Formulaicity, florescence, and grammaticization
Questioning the clause as a crosslinguistic unit in grammar and interaction
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 typically discussed. We first examine how structural units including the clause have been discussed in the literature on Finnish and Japanese. We will then exami…
On the notion of unit in the study of human languages
Preview this article: On the notion of unit in the study of human languages, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/sl.00014.int-1.gif
Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic Exacerbation of Depressive Symptoms for Social Frailty from the Orange Registry
The increase in the rate of transition of elderly individuals to the social frailty group could have been related to the implementation of the stay-at-home order as part of the countermeasures for COVID-19. Furthermore, the increased prevalence of depressive symptoms associated with the stay-at-home order could also have influenced the increase in the prevalence of social frailty during the COVID-19 pandemic
Incrementing’ in conversation. A comparison of practices in English, German and Japanese
This cross-linguistic study focuses on ways in which conversationalists speak beyond a point of possible turn completion in conversation, specifically on turn extensions which are grammatically dependent, backward-looking and extend the prior action. It argues that further distinctions can be made in terms of whether the extension is prosodically integrated with the prior unit, its host, ( Non-add-on ) or not, and in terms of whether it repairs s…
Increments in cross-linguistic perspective: Introductory remarks
A new area of research called Interactional Linguistics highlights linguistic structure in relation to naturally occurring interaction and is characterized by its cross-linguistic orientation. As a contribution to this new area of research, the present volume is a collection of papers with a cross-linguistic focus; they examine what is often called an ‘increment’, a grammatical extension of the already completed unit. In this paper, we briefly di…
Voiceless nasals in the Ikema dialect of Miyako Ryukyuan
Voiceless nasal consonants are typologically rare in the world’s languages. The present study investigates the acoustic realization of reported voiceless nasals in the Miyako Ryukyuan dialect Ikema. Voiceless nasals in Ikema occur word-initially and word-medially as part of a geminate or consonant cluster, and are phonemically distinct from modal voiced nasals. Initial observation of collected recordings revealed many instances of the voiceless p…
Verb repetition as a template for reactive tokens in Japanese everyday talk
A systematic investigation into the first large scale Japanese conversation corpus reveals that repeated verbs (RVs) occurring in the response position tend to involve frequently used verbs such as aru ‘to exist’ and chigau ‘to differ’ (e.g., aru aru aru ). Further, longer RVs, those involving more repetition, are even more likely to occur with frequent verbs. In RVs, we find the verb having lost some of its lexical meaning and phonological subst…
Establishing a pseudo-cleft construction in Japanese: A perspective from everyday conversation
Linguistics (21 works) · Philosophy (20 works) · Psychology (19 works) · Computer Science (18 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (18 works) · Conversation (10 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (10 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (9 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works)