Atsuko Nishiyama

List of John Benjamins publications for which Atsuko Nishiyama plays a role.

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Nishiyama, Atsuko and Jean-Pierre Koenig 2008 10. The discourse functions of the present perfect Constraints in Discourse, Benz, Anton and Peter Kühnlein (eds.), pp. 201–223 | Article
The interpretation of the present perfect is often assumed to require pragmatic inferences. However, what rules speakers use to perform these pragmatic inferences is not clear. This paper reports two corpus studies of the present perfect in English and Japanese that show that the inferences… read more