Tomoko Yamashita Smith
List of John Benjamins publications for which Tomoko Yamashita Smith plays a role.
Articles
An areal and cross-linguistic study of benefactive and malefactive constructions Benefactives and Malefactives: Typological perspectives and case studies, Zúñiga, Fernando and Seppo Kittilä (eds.), pp. 97–120 | Article
2010 In this study, we compare languages of Europe with those in Asia, establishing a two-part typology of strategies that these languages use to express notions of benefactivity and malefactivity. Languages in Europe have a generalized and semantically underspecified affectedness construction as the… read more
Cross-linguistic categorization of benefactives by event structure: A preliminary framework for benefactive typology Benefactives and Malefactives: Typological perspectives and case studies, Zúñiga, Fernando and Seppo Kittilä (eds.), pp. 71–96 | Article
2010 The first of its kind, this study classifies the semantics of benefactive constructions from over sixty languages according to event structure types, identifying two basic types. The “agentive benefactive” construction, always includes an agent and expresses that the agent intentionally carries out… read more