Naomi H. McGloin

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McGloin, Naomi H. 2014 Subordination and information status: A case of To and Koto complement clauses 
in Japanese Usage-based Approaches to Japanese Grammar: Towards the understanding of human language, Kabata, Kaori and Tsuyoshi Ono (eds.), pp. 13–36 | Article
This paper examines one type of subordinate construction in Japanese, namely, complement clauses, in particular those where two different complementizers, to and koto, are interchangeable.  Despite the general notion that main clauses code foreground information (or express a main assertion) while… read more