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Why the Japanese double-ga construction cannot be scrambled.
… and the particle-wa are defined as the focus marker and the topic marker respectively. The different shades of meaning that both particles have are also explained. Chapter 3 illustrates the Japanese double -ga construction. Chapter 4 deals with the impossibility of scrambling in the …
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L1 Acquisition of Japanese Particles: A Corpus-Based Study
… and <em>-yo</em>) and the nominative marker <em>-ga</em> and topic marker <em>-wa</em>. Under Fiengo and McClure's (2002) adaptation of Austin's (1953) Speech Act Theory, <em>-ga</em> and <em>-wa</em> are viewed as pragmatic "direction of fit" indicators. The data reveals that although …