Publications
Books
- Shimojo, Mitsuaki (2024). Salience of Information in Japanese: Discourse and the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface. Cambridge University Press.
- Shimojo, Mitsuaki (2005). Argument Encoding in Japanese Conversation. Hampshire, England: Palgrave Macmillan.
Articles
- Takei, Mitsuko, Mitsuaki Shimojo, and Miho Fujiwara (2023). L2 Japanese learners’ perception of lingua franca interactions in a virtual “third” space. Journal CAJLE 24, 71-95.
- Shimojo, Mitsuaki (2023). Extraction restrictions in complex sentences. In Delia Bentley, Ricardo Mairal, Wataru Nakamura, and Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. (eds.),
The Cambridge Handbook of Role and Reference Grammar. Cambridge University Press.
- Takei, Mitsuko, and Mitsuaki Shimojo (2022). Japanese as a Lingua Franca Interaction for L1 and L2 Speakers in Virtual Contact Situations.
The Proceedings of CAJLE 2022: The Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Japanese Language Education, 200-205.
- Takei, Mitsuko, Miho Fujiwara, and Mitsuaki Shimojo (2021). Online conversation project between universities in Japan and the US: its rationale and design for integrating research and pedagogy.
Studies in the Humanities and Sciences, Vol. LXII, No.1, 1-23. Hiroshima Shudo University.
- Shimojo, Mitsuaki (2021). Information and discourse structures and topics: a study of Japanese cooking show discourse. Gengo Kenkyu (Journal of the Linguistic Society of Japan) 160, 69-95.
- Takei, Mitsuko, Miho Fujiwara, and Mitsuaki Shimojo (2021). Remote “virtual” contact situations: Findings from the post-conversation survey and interview.
The Proceedings of CAJLE 2021: The Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Japanese Language Education, 186-195.
- Shimojo, Mitsuaki (2020). A Japanese manga literature textbook for developing communicative competence.
In Masami Toku and Hiromi Tsuchiya (eds.), MANGA!: Visual Pop-Culture in ARTS Education, 178-186. InSEA Publications.
- Shimojo, Mitsuaki (2019). Topicalization in Japanese cooking discourse. Open Linguistics 5, 511-531.
- Shimojo, Mitsuaki (2018). Kadai kaiketsugatakaiwa ni okeru supiichi sutairu shifuto: nihongo bogowasha to nihongo gakushuusha no hikaku
(Speech style shifting in problem-solving discourse: a comparison of native Japanese speakers and learners of Japanese).
The Proceedings of CAJLE 2018: The Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Japanese Language Education, 244-253.
- Shimojo, Mitsuaki (2018). Word order and extraction: a functional approach. In Yoko Hasegawa (ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Japanese Linguistics, 404-428. Cambridge University Press.
- Shimojo, Mitsuaki (2017). Nihongo gakushuusha niyoru mudooshibun no shiyoo nitsuite (On the use of verbless sentences in L2 Japanese).
The Proceedings of CAJLE 2017: The Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Japanese Language Education, 232-241.
- Shimojo, Mitsuaki (2016). Saliency in discourse and sentence form: zero anaphora and topicalization in Japanese. In M. M. Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest and Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. (eds.), Information Structure and Spoken Language in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective, 55-75. Mouton de Gruyter.
- Lee, EunHee, and Mitsuaki Shimojo (2016). Mismatch of topic between Japanese and Korean. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 25(1), 81-112.
- Shimojo, Mitsuaki (2015). Discourse representation and
argument linking: an analysis of zero anaphora and topicalization in Japanese narratives. In Osamu Hieda (ed.), Information Structure and
Nilotic Languages: Studies in Nilotic Linguistics Vol. 10, 1-17. Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
- Shimojo, Mitsuaki (2014). Nihongo kakikotoba niokeru
rentaishuushokusetsu: higenteitekiyoohoo no danwateki goitekiyooso no
koosatsu (Some discourse and lexical aspects of non-restrictive relative
clauses in written Japanese). The Proceedings of CAJLE 2014: The Annual
Conference of the Canadian Association for Japanese Language Education,
123-132.
- Shimojo, Mitsuaki (2013). Mangaban bungaku kyoozai no bunseki:
danwa bunpooteki shiten kara (Analysis of a Japanese manga literature
textbook: a discourse and grammar viewpoint). The Proceedings of CAJLE
2013: The Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Japanese
Language Education, 251-258.
- Shimojo, Mitsuaki (2011). The left periphery and focus structure in
Japanese. In Wataru Nakamura (ed.), New Perspectives in Role and
Reference Grammar, 266-293. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
- Shimojo, Mitsuaki (2009). Focus structure and beyond:
discourse-pragmatics in RRG. In Lilian Guerrero Valenzuela, Sergio
Ibanez, and Valeria A. Belloro (eds.), Studies in Role and Reference
Grammar, 75-95. Mexico: The IIFL-UNAM Press.
- Shimojo, Mitsuaki (2008). How missing is the missing verb? The verb-less numeral quantifier construction in Japanese. In Robert D. Van
Valin, Jr. (ed.), Investigations of the Syntax-Semantics-Pragmatics
Interface, 285-304. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
- Shimojo, Mitsuaki (2006). Properties of particle "omission"
revisited. Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics 26, 123-140. Department
of Linguistics, University of Toronto.
- Shimojo, Mitsuaki (2004). Quantifier float and information
processing: a case study from Japanese. Journal of Pragmatics 36, 375-405.
- Shimojo, Mitsuaki (2002). Functional theories of island phenomena: the case of Japanese. Studies in Language 26, 67-124.
- Shimojo, Mitsuaki (2002). A cognitive account of extraction asymmetry in Japanese relative clauses. Japanese/Korean Linguistics 10, 90-103. Stanford: CSLI.
- Choi, Hye-Won, and Mitsuaki Shimojo (2001). The topic marking in Korean: a comparative study with Japanese. Comparative Korean Studies 8, 1-17.
- Shimojo, Mitsuaki, and Hye-Won Choi (2001). On asymmetry in topic
marking - the case of Japanese WA and Korean NUN. In J. Boyle, J-H Lee,
and A. Okrent (eds.), Chicago Linguistic Society 36, Volume 1: The Main
Session, 455-467. Chicago: University of Chicago.
- Choi, Hye-Won, and Mitsuaki Shimojo (2001). The topic marking of
Korean: a comparative study with Japanese. 10th IACKS International
Conference, 86-98. The International Association of Comparative Korean
Studies Conference.
- Shimojo, Mitsuaki (2001). Quantifier Floating in Japanese - a
cognitive view. Proceedings of the First Seoul International Conference
on Discourse and Cognitive Linguistics: Perspectives for the 21st,
237-250. Seoul: The Discourse and Cognitive Linguistics Society of
Korea.
- Shimojo, Mitsuaki (2001). Syntactic constraints on quantifier float
and information processing: the case of Japanese. The Handbook of 2001
International Workshop and Conference on Role and Reference Grammar,
80-88. Jeonju, Korea: Jeonju University.
- Shimojo, Mitsuaki, and Kiyoko Toratani (1999). An "interlanguage"
stage in the acquisition of locational expressions in Japanese as a
foreign language and its pedagogical implications. In D. P. Phillips
(ed.), Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Conference of the Southeast
Association of Teachers of Japanese, 12-22. Winston-Salem, North
Carolina: Wake Forest University.
- Shimojo, Mitsuaki (1999). The interplay between grammar and
discourse: The case of the Japanese topic marker wa in subordinate
clauses. In E. van Gelderen and V. Samiian (eds.), Proceedings of the
Western Conference on Linguistics '98, 425-439. Fresno, California:
Department of Linguistics, California State University, Fresno.
- Shimojo, Mitsuaki (1997). The role of the general category in the
maintenance of numeral classifier systems: The case of tsu and ko in Japanese. Linguistics 35, 705-733.
- Zubin, David, and Mitsuaki Shimojo (1993). How "general" are
general classifiers? with special reference to ko and tsu in Japanese.
In J. Guenter, B, Kaiser, and C. Zoll (eds.), Proceedings of the
Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 490-502.
Berkeley, CA: BLS.
- Shimojo, Mitsuaki (1993). Complement and default numeral classifier
functions of tsu and ko in Japanese. In M. Bernstein (ed.), ESCOL '92:
Proceedings of the Ninth Eastern States Conference on Linguistics,
226-237. Ithaca: Cornell University, Department of Modern Languages and
Linguistics.