Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Part I: Wa in narrative and expository discourse
5. The use of wa as a cohesion marker in Japanese oral narratives 3
6. Thematization as a staging device in the Japanese narrative 57
7. Thematization, assumed familiarity, staging, and syntactic binding in Japanese 83
8. Identifiability, scope-setting, and the particle wa 107
9. A study of the so-called topic wa in passages from Tolstoi, Lawrenceand Faulkner (of course, in Japanese translation) 143
10. Part II: Wa and other syntactic phenomena
11. The role of wa in negation 165
12. Wa and the WH phrase 185
13. Part III: Historical perspectives on wa
14. Functions of the theme marker wa from synchronic and diachronic perspectives 221
15. Wa in diachronic perspective 265
16. Part IV: Pragmatic perspectives on wa
17. How relevant is a functional notion of communicative orientation to ga and wa ? 293
18. Abbreveations 307