Keiko Hirano
List of John Benjamins publications for which Keiko Hirano plays a role.
Article
2016 Accommodation, dialect contact and grammatical variation: Verbs of obligation in the Anglophone community in Japan New Approaches to English Linguistics: Building bridges, Timofeeva, Olga, Anne-Christine Gardner, Alpo Honkapohja and Sarah Chevalier (eds.), pp. 13–33 | Article
The present study investigates dialect contact and linguistic accommodation in the use of verbs expressing obligation (such as MUST, HAVE GOT TO, HAVE TO and GOT TO) among native speakers of English resident in Japan, using a social network approach. Approximately 500 tokens were extracted from… read more