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Publication details [#25876]
Lee, Kiri. 2002. Nominative case-marker deletion in spoken Japanese: an analysis from the perspective of information structure. Journal of Pragmatics 34 (6) : 683–709.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166
Journal WWW
Annotation
This study examines the deletion of the nominative case-marker GA in noun phrases from the perspective of information structure adopting the framework in which degrees of importance are recognized as a continuum. It is argued that when the information status of the subject NP is 'inactive', no element can be deleted from the NP-GA; when it is 'active', the entire subject NP-GA can be deleted; and when it is 'semiactive', GA can be deleted.