Historical Discourse Analysis
Grammatical Subject in Japanese
1st Edition
Published on 2. August 2011
IX, 265 pages
978-3-11-086052-8 (ISBN)
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Content
- Intro
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- 1.1. The influence of Western languages on Japanese
- 1.2. Historical background of Japanese language contact with Western languages
- 1.3. Reformation of the language
- 1.4. Oobun-chokuyaku-tai and its influence
- 1.5. Changes observed in the grammatical subject
- 1.6. Implications and problems
- Chapter 2: Theoretical problems: Defining the notion of subject
- 2.1. The problem of the notion of subject in Japanese
- 2.2. The notion of subject in this study
- 2.3. Summary
- Chapter 3: Data and theoretical concepts
- 3.1. Data
- 3.2. Method
- Chapter 4: Explicit and implicit subjects
- 4.1. Changes in the occurrence of explicit and implicit subject
- 4.2. Implicitness in subjects
- 4.3. Changes in the occurrence of different subject forms
- 4.4. Factors that influence explicit/implicit manifestation of subjects
- 4.5. Summary
- Chapter 5: Inanimate Subjects in transitive, passive, and causative constructions
- 5.1. Inanimate subjects with transitive verbs
- 5.2. Passive constructions and inanimate subjects
- 5.3. Causative constructions and inanimate subjects
- 5.4. Summary
- Chapter 6: The particles ga and no
- 6.1. Explicit subjects and subject marking particles
- 6.2. Unmarked subjects
- 6.3. Changes in the function of ga and no
- Chapter 7: The topic particle wa
- 7.1. Background discussion
- 7.2. Macro function and micro function of wa in present-day Japanese
- 7.3. Earlier uses of the particle
- 7.4. External influence
- 7.5. Summary
- Chapter 8: Concluding remarks
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
