Table of contents
Prefacevii
Part I: Wa in narrative and expository discourse
The use of wa as a cohesion marker in Japanese oral narratives3
Thematization as a staging device in the Japanese narrative57
Thematization, assumed familiarity, staging, and syntactic binding in Japanese83
Identifiability, scope-setting, and the particle wa: A study of Japanese spoken expository discourse107
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
Part III: Historical perspectives on wa
Functions of the theme marker wa from synchronic and diachronic perspectives221
Wa in diachronic perspective265
Part IV: Pragmatic perspectives on wa
How relevant is a functional notion of communicative orientation to ga and wa?293
Abbreveations307
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