著者
谷守 正寛 Masahiro TANIMORI
出版者
甲南大学国際言語文化センター
雑誌
言語と文化 = Language and Culture : The Journal of the Institute for Language and Culture (ISSN:13476610)
巻号頁・発行日
no.23, pp.71-86, 2019-03-15

There are several types of Japanese topicalized sentences which appear to remain unaccounted for under the standard grammatical analysis of the Japanese particle wa as the topic marker. In this paper, the author's analysis will capture several additional properties of Japanese topicalization. While several pieces of evidence which favor permission for the topic's being linked to any element included in the following comment and its function of neutralizing the logical Case relation between the topic and the linked element are illustrated, the author will maintain that the element which can be illogically linked to the topic can be considered to express what "the topic most strongly reminds the speaker of" (TANIMORI 1994). The linguistic phenomena which show in this paper that the topic is linked to the following comment, regardless of the absence of logical Case relation between the topic and the element included in the comment, will let us consider the Japanese paradigm of topicalization to be different from what has been examined on it thus far. There is reason to believe that Japanese topicalization can be realized without the presence of the logical relation between the topic and the following comment, if the contextual coherence of sentences is properly balanced.