Clauses and conjunctions
Some of my articles focus on the choice of conjunctions and their effects, functions, etc. This category includes various different types of studies. The following work discusses the choice of coordinating and subordinating conjunctions in relation to the style of language. It is a collaborative work based on the Corpus of Spoken Professional American English:
- Iyeiri, Yoko, Michiko Yaguchi, and Yasumasa Baba. 2010. “Coordinating and Subordinating Conjunctions in Spoken American English”, in Noam Chomsky and Language Descriptions, ed. John Ole Askedal, Ian Roberts, and Tomonori Matsushita, pp. 179-96. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
The following work is part of our project on Middle English Paris and Vienne. Here we focus on the two causative conjunctions for and because:
- Uchida, Mitsumi & Yoko Iyeiri. 2017．“For and Because: A Comparative Study of Causal Conjunctions in Caxton’s Paris and Vienne and Three French Versions of the Same Text”, in Language Contact and Variation in the History of English, ed. Mitsumi Uchida, Yoko Iyeiri & Lawrence Schourup, pp. 61-79. Tokyo: Kaitakusha.
The next work is slightly different in nature. Its main concern is word order. This study discusses the ordering between main and subordinate clauses, which seems to differ significantly depending on which subordinating conjunctions are used. Although this is among popular topics in research into Present-day English, there are not many studies delving into earlier English. This study tries to prove that there is continuity in the history of English in terms of how information flows.
- Iyeiri, Yoko. 2013. “The Positioning of Adverbial Clauses in the Paston Letters”, in Meaning in the History of English: Words and Texts in Context, ed. Andreas H. Jucker, Daniela Landert, Annina Seiler, & Nicole Studer-Joho, pp. 211-229. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
