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In:Perspectives on Topicalization: The case of Japanese wa
Edited by John Hinds, Shoichi Iwasaki and Senko K. Maynard
[Typological Studies in Language 14] 1987
► pp. v–vi

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Published online: 1 January 1987

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Table of contents

Prefacevii

Part I: Wa in narrative and expository discourse

The use of wa as a cohesion marker in Japanese oral narratives3

Patricia M. Clancy

Pamela A. Downing

Thematization as a staging device in the Japanese narrative57

Senko K. Maynard

Thematization, assumed familiarity, staging, and syntactic binding in Japanese83

Identifiability, scope-setting, and the particle wa: A study of Japanese spoken expository discourse107

Shoichi Iwasaki

A study of the so-called topic wa in passages from Tolstoi, Lawrenceand Faulkner (of course, in Japanese translation)143

Part II: Wa and other syntactic phenomena

The role of wa in negation165

Naomi Hanaoka McGloin

Wa and the WH phrase185

Shigeru Miyagawa

Part III: Historical perspectives on wa

Functions of the theme marker wa from synchronic and diachronic perspectives221

Noriko Fujii Ueno

Wa in diachronic perspective265

Charles M. De Wolf

Part IV: Pragmatic perspectives on wa

How relevant is a functional notion of communicative orientation to ga and wa?293

Abbreveations307