Motoki Nomachi

List of John Benjamins publications for which Motoki Nomachi plays a role.

Articles

Heine, Bernd and Motoki Nomachi 2013 Chapter 4. Contact-induced replication: Some diagnosticsShared Grammaticalization: With special focus on the Transeurasian languages, Robbeets, Martine and Hubert Cuyckens (eds.), pp. 67–100 | Chapter
That contact between genetically unrelated languages (or dialects) has taken place is relatively easy to establish when they share, for instance, sufficient lexical or grammatical forms. This is usually much more difficult to demonstrate when the shared elements concern structure and/or meaning,… read more
For good reasons, linguists are highly skeptical when it comes to predicting linguistic change. As has been argued in Heine (2003: 598–599), based on observations on some regularities of grammatical change made within the framework of grammaticalization theory, however, it seems possible to… read more