Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 concepts3.1. 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 subjects5.4. 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