My research interests center around the functional motivation of linguistic form and the relation between lexical semantics and discourse pragmatics. This has resulted in work on syntactic diachrony, particularly in Malay/Indonesian, and in an interest in aspects of lexical selection in discourse in Indonesian and English. My current work focuses on observing lexical and grammatical changes in computer-mediated written communication, and the motivations for these changes both in terms of social aspects of electronic interaction and technological properties of the channel.
1990. Functional Change: The Cast of Malay Constituent Order. Mouton de Gruyter.
1995. Functional categories in the lexicon: referent introduction in Indonesian novels. Text 14:4, 465-494.
1995. The Lexicon in Text Generation: Progress and prospects. In Walker, Donald E., Antonio Zampolli, and Nicoletta Calzolari (eds). Automating the Lexicon. Oxford University Press.
1996. Cumming, Susanna and Tsuyoshi Ono. Ad Hoc Hierarchy: Lexical Structures for Reference in Consumer Reports Articles. In Barbara Fox (ed.) Studies in Anaphora. Benjamins.
1997. Discourse and Grammar. In Van Dijk, Teun (ed.) Discourse as Structure and Process. With Tsuyoshi Ono. Sage Publications.
