著者

福田 稔 Minoru FUKUDA 宮崎公立大学人文学部 Miyazaki Municipal University Faculty of Humanities

雑誌

宮崎公立大学人文学部紀要 = Bulletin of Miyazaki Municipal University Faculty of Humanities (ISSN:13403613)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.29, no.1, pp.157-177, 2022-03-10

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This study assumes that the focus interpretation is involved in the major subject of multiple subject constructions of Japanese and argues that the focused elements with phonetic effects cannot be dropped and must be phonetically externalized. In doing so, it draws on three studies, namely Kuno (1973a, b), which focused on the interpretation of the nominative case marker gain standard Japanese, Miyagawa (2010), which focused on the Feature Inheritance analysis for the focus interpretation, and Nishioka (2013, 2018), which focused on case markers such as ga and no in the dialect used in Kumamoto Prefecture of Japan. If the subjects fail to receive a focus interpretation, the omission of ga and no is allowed because they circumvent the externalization condition on focused elements. The same analysis can be extended to the focused accusative case marker. It 1s inferred from our proposal that the fact that case markers aside from the nominative and accusative ones cannot be dropped is arguably connected with the availability of the focus interpretation induced by feature inheritance.