Takeshi Usuki

List of John Benjamins publications for which Takeshi Usuki plays a role.

Article

Usuki, Takeshi and Kimi Akita 2015 What’s in a mimetic? On the dynamicity of its iconic stemIconicity: East meets West, Hiraga, Masako K., William J. Herlofsky, Kazuko Shinohara and Kimi Akita (eds.), pp. 109–123 | Article
This paper explores the fundamental semantic and syntactic properties of Japanese mimetic lexemes as iconic signs that depict various eventualities by means of linguistic sound. We argue how the two central features of mimetics – stem-based morphology and dynamicity – restrict their morphosyntactic… read more