This thesis presents a comprehensive study of the Japanese double-ga construction and offers an explanation as to why the Japanese double-ga construction does not allow scrambling. In chapter 2, the particle-ga and the particle-wa are defined as the focus marker and the topic marker respectively. The different shades of meaning that both particles have are also explained. Chapter 3 illustrates the Japanese double -ga construction. Chapter 4 deals with the impossibility of scrambling in the double-particle constructions. A strong parallelism is shown between the double-ga construction and the double-wa construction. The claim is that there are three "pragmatic slots" that the particle-ga and -wa can occupy in the sentence. The rigid-fixed-order of these three slots contributes to the prohibition of scrambling.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc4319 |
| Date | 08 1900 |
| Creators | Hoye, Masako Oku |
| Contributors | Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi, Montler, Timothy, Spitz, Walter |
| Publisher | University of North Texas |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | Text |
| Rights | Public, Copyright, Hoye, Masako Oku, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved. |
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