Akio Ogawa
List of John Benjamins publications for which Akio Ogawa plays a role.
Article
2011 Towards a typology of impersonal constructions: A semantic map approach Impersonal Constructions: A cross-linguistic perspective, Malchukov, Andrej L. and Anna Siewierska (eds.), pp. 17–54 | Article
The present article proposes a semantic map for the domain of impersonal constructions. Following Keenan, we assume that different varieties of impersonal constructions register loss of the functional subject properties (such as definiteness, topicality and agentivity). It is argued that different… read more