Historical Discourse Analysis

Frontmatter -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Theoretical problems: Defining the notion of subject -- Chapter 3 Data and theoretical concepts -- Chapter 4 Explicit and implicit subjects -- Chapter 5 Inanimate Subjects in transitive, passive, and causative constructions -- Chapter 6 The Particles ga and no -- Chapter 7 The topic particle wa -- Chapter 8 Concluding remarks -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index