Author

Tohru Seraku

Observed names: Seraku Tohru, Seraku, Tohru, Tohru SERAKU

Institution: Hankuk University of Foreign Studies

Observed institutions: Nankai University, University of Oxford, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies

ORCID: 0000-0002-6684-4826

Observed ORCID: 0000-0002-6684-4826

OpenAlex ID: A5068940407

Interactional and rhetorical functions of placeholders: A relevance-theoretic approach

2021 · Tohru Seraku · Journal of Pragmatics · 16

Grammars for placeholders: The dynamic turn

2022 · Tohru Seraku · Glossa a journal of general linguistics · 10

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Referring to arbitrary entities with placeholders

2021 · Tohru Seraku · Pragmatics Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) · 10

Placeholders in Yoron Ryukyuan: A view from Functional Discourse Grammar

2020 · Tohru Seraku · Lingua · 10

Grammatically unstable placeholders and morpho-syntactic remedies: evidence from East Asian languages

2022 · Tohru Seraku, Sooyun Park, et al. · Folia Linguistica · 9

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Placeholders in crosslinguistic perspective: abilities, preferences, and usage motives

2024 · Tohru Seraku · Linguistics · 8

A grammatical description of the placeholder are in spontaneous Japanese

2021 · Tohru SERAKU, Min-Young PARK, et al. · Cahiers de linguistique - Asie orientale · 8

Clefts, relatives, and language dynamics: the case of Japanese

2013 · Seraku, Tohru · Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford) · 7

Creating placeholders on the fly: A metarepresentational approach

2023 · Tohru Seraku · Journal of Pragmatics · 5

A Dynamic Syntax modelling of Japanese and Rangi clefts: parsing incrementality and the growth of interpretation

2016 · Tohru Seraku, Hannah Gibson · Language Sciences · 5

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Placeholders and interjective hesitators

2025 · Tohru Seraku · Studies in Language · 3

Japanese unnun as a meta-discourse placeholder

2024 · Tohru Seraku · Pragmatics & Cognition · 3

A “Maximal Exclusion” Approach to Structural Underspecification in Dynamic Syntax

2019 · Tohru Seraku · Journal of Logic Language and Information · 3

Poi in Japanese Wakamono Kotoba ‘youth language’: A view from attenuation at the speech-act dimension

2019 · Tohru Seraku, Takako Akiha · Lingua · 3

Multiple foci in Japanese clefts revisited: A semantic incrementality account

2013 · Tohru Seraku · Lingua · 3

Multiple Foci in Japanese Clefts and the Growth of Semantic Representation

2011 · Tohru Seraku · Lecture notes in computer science · 3

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Mi-nominalizations in JapaneseWakamono Kotoba‘youth language’

2020 · Tohru Seraku · Pragmatics Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) · 2

Issues in defining/extracting collocations in Japanese and Korean: Empirical implications for building a collocation database

2016 · Jong-Seung Park, Tohru Seraku, et al. · Heliyon · 2

A "Maximal Exclusion" Approach to Structural Uncertainty in Dynamic Syntax.

2016 · Tohru Seraku · Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB) · 2

The affective construction in Yoron Ryukyuan

2018 · Tohru Seraku, Nana Tohyama · Studies in Language · 1

A Dynamic Syntax Modelling of Postposing in Japanese Narratives

2015 · Tohru Seraku · Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB) · 1

Structural Underspecification and Resolution within a Processing-oriented Grammar Formalism.

2013 · Tohru Seraku · 1

Two Types of Nominalization in Japanese as an Outcome of Semantic Tree Growth

2012 · Tohru Seraku · Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB) · 1

On the Polyfunctionality of Copula Sentences in Japanese

2010 · Tohru Seraku · 1

The versatile coordinator - ya in Japanese: at the semantics–pragmatics interface

2026 · Tohru Seraku · Linguistics

Works count: 49

Citation count: 117

H-index: 7

I10-index: 4