Koichiro Nakamura
List of John Benjamins publications in which Koichiro Nakamura is involved.
Articles
2021 Chapter 8. Another argument for the differences among wa -marked phrases Current Issues in Syntactic Cartography: A crosslinguistic perspective, Si, Fuzhen and Luigi Rizzi (eds.), pp. 161–180 | Chapter
The aim of this paper is to argue that the focal stress and structural position determine the interpretation of wa-marked phrases in a Japanese sentence. Namely, our argument is, based on, and extended out of Nakamura (2017: 356–359), that in sentence initial position, wa-marked phrases denote… read more
2020 Chapter 6. Types and functions of wa -marked DPs and their structural distribution in a Japanese sentence Information-Structural Perspectives on Discourse Particles, Modicom, Pierre-Yves and Olivier Duplâtre (eds.), pp. 161–176 | Chapter
This paper is devoted to the Japanese particle wa. We argue that a Japanese sentence has a CP peripheral structure, in which multiple wa-marked phrases can sit. The left peripheral structure in CP territory includes Topic Phrases (TopP) that host Thematic Topics (TT) in sentence-initial… read more