Publications (Selected)

 

L2 acquisition

Nishi, Y. (accepted, pending revisions). What learners know about lexical aspect in L2: Motion verbs kuru ‘come’ and iku ‘go’ in the acquisition of imperfective –teiru in Japanese. In K. Kabata and K. Toratani (Eds.), Cognitive and Functional Approach to the Study of Japanese as a Second Language. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.

Nishi, Y., & Shirai, Y. (2007). Where L1 semantic transfer occurs: The significance of cross-linguistic variation in lexical aspect in the L2 acquisition of aspect. In Y. Matsumoto, D. Y. Oshima, O. W. Robinson, and P. Sells (Eds.), Diversity in language: Perspectives and implications (pp.219-241). Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.

 

Aspect

Nishi, Y. (2012). A temporal approach to motion verbs: ‘come’ and ‘go’ in English and East Asian languages. In L. Filipovic and K. M. Jaszczolt (Eds.), Space and Time in Languages and Cultures I: Linguistic Diversity (pp.395-415). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Nishi, Y., & Shirai, Y. (2007). How aspectual notions are lexicalized: A comparative analysis of predicates in The Little Prince in English and Japanese. In V. Eschbach-Szabo, A. Wlodarczyk, M. Ebi, and Y. Ikegami (Eds.), Japanese linguistics European chapter (pp.31- 42). Tokyo: Kurosio.

Nishi, Y., & Shirai, Y. (2006). Rethinking the temporal approach to stativity denoted by –te iru: The application of the two-component theory of aspect. In T. Vance and K. Jones (Eds.), Japanese/Korean Linguistics 14 (pp.369-379). Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.

Shirai, Y., &  Nishi, Y. (2005). How what we mean impacts how we talk: The Japanese imperfective aspect marker –teiru in conversation. In J. Frodesen and C. Holten (Eds.), The power of context in language teaching and learning (pp.39-48). Boston, MA: Heinle & Heinle.

Shirai, Y., &  Nishi, Y. (2002). Lexicalisation of aspectual structures in English and Japanese. In A. Giacalone Ramat (Ed.) Typology and second language acquisition (pp.267-290). Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

 

Historical

Nishi, Y. (2006). The emergence of the complementizer no in Japanese revisited. In T. Vance and K. Jones (Eds.), Japanese/Korean Linguistics 14 (pp.127-137). Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.

 

In Japanese

Nishi, Y., & Shirai, Y. (2004). Kaiwa ni okeru –te iru no imi [Semantics of –te iru in conversation]. In M. Minami and M. Asano (Eds.), Gengogaku to nihongo kyooiku III [Linguistics and Japanese language education III] (pp.231-249). Tokyo: Kurosio.

Nishi, Y., & Shirai, Y. (2001). Asupekuto koozoo no goika ni okeru fuhensee to sai: Eego to nohongo no baai [Universals and variations in the lexicalization of aspectual structures: A case study on English and Japanese]. In M. Minami and Y. S. Alam (Eds.), Gengogaku to nihongo kyooiku II [Linguistics and Japanese language education II] (pp.75-92). Tokyo: Kurosio.