Theories of Morphological Case and Topic/Focus

Yoshiki Ogawa is a Professor in the Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Japan. He is a theoretical linguist that studies the nature of morphosyntax and its relation to phonology and semantics in the framework of generative syntax.

• Chapter 1: Current Issues in the Theories of Morphological Case / Yoshiki Ogawa.- Part I: Quirky Case-marking on Subject and Topic/Focus: Its Synchronic Variation and Diachronic Change.- Chapter 2: Variation in the Grammaticization of Subject and Topic across Bantu Languages / Yukiko Morimoto & Nobuko Yoneda.- Chapter 3: The Development of Participial Constructions in the History of English: With Special Reference to Case Assignment and Clause Structure / Satoshi Nakagawa & Tomoyuki Tanaka.- Chapter 4: Discourse Configurationality and the Licensing of Quirky Subjects in the History of English / Hiroyuki Nawata.- Chapter 5: TopP-FinP-TP Interactions and Restrictions on (Multiple) Quirky Case Licensing / Yoshiki Ogawa & Hiroyuki Nawata.- Part II: Morphological Case-marking Alternations on Subject and Object: Their Geographical or Intergenerational Variations and Diachronic Change.- Chapter 6: The Genitive-dative Alternation with Transitive Nominal Predicates in Japanese / Hideki Kishimoto.- Chapter 7: A Quantitative Study of Japanese Case Markers as Language Variation / Satoshi Nambu.- Chapter 8: Diachronic Shrinking of Genitive Subject Clause in Standard Japanese: Evidence from Intergenerational Comparison of Sentence Acceptability / Yoshiki Ogawa, Keiyu Niikuni & Yuichi Wada.- Chapter 9: Nominative/Genitive Conversion in Hichiku Japanese as Focal/Presentational Distinction in the Complementizer Domain / Kazushige Moriyama, Yuichi Wada, Keiyu Niikuni & Yoshiki Ogawa.- Part III: Case-Markers and Adpositions on Objects: Their Acquisition, Interspeaker Variations and Diachronic Change.- Chapter 10: Case-markers and Postpositions in Early Child Japanese / Koji Sugisaki.- Chapter 11: Input Indeterminacy and the PP vs. KP Ambiguity Hypothesis: A View from Interspeaker Variation in Transitive Subject Control Promise / Yosuke Sato.- Chapter 12: After the Demise of Dative Case in the History of English / Tomohiro Yanagi.- Part IV: Morphological Case-marking and LinguisticTypology.- Chapter 13: On Dative Case and Split Ergativity in Japanese / Hiroshi Aoyagi.- Chapter 14: Marked Nominativity in Ryukyuan Languages / Michinori Shimoji & Aoi Matsuoka.- Chapter 15: Case Marking and the Order of Object, Oblique and Verb / Hisao Tokizaki & Yasutomo Kuwana.