Naoko Hayase
List of John Benjamins publications for which Naoko Hayase plays a role.
Articles
2014 The motivation for using English suspended dangling participles: A Usage-based development of (Inter)subjectivity Usage-Based Approaches to Language Change, Coussé, Evie and Ferdinand von Mengden (eds.), pp. 117–146 | Article
The English dangling participial construction has long been prescriptively discarded as anomalous despite the fact that it serves the useful function of expressing the speaker’s subjective construal. The construction further gives rise to some suspended participial uses with an intersubjective… read more
2011 The cognitive motivation for the use of dangling participles in English Motivation in Grammar and the Lexicon, Panther, Klaus-Uwe and Günter Radden (eds.), pp. 89–106 | Article
Dangling participles are considered incorrect usage in written Standard English. Nonetheless, dangling participles enjoy widespread usage, particularly in spoken English. This paper argues that the use of dangling participles is semantically and cognitively motivated. In adopting a usage-based view… read more
1999 The Role of Figure, Ground, and Coercion in Aspectual Interpretation Lexical and Syntactical Constructions and the Construction of Meaning: Proceedings of the bi-annual ICLA meeting in Albuquerque, July 1995, Verspoor, Marjolijn H., Kee Dong Lee and Eve Sweetser (eds.), pp. 33 ff. | Article