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Genitive Subjects and Case Marker Drop in Japanese Genitive Subjects and Case Marker Drop in Japanese 福田, 稔 フクダ, ミノル FUKUDA, Minoru 古川, 武史 フルカワ, タケシ FURUKAWA, Takeshi Case Marker Drop double subject construction focus genitive case marker genitive subject nominative subject nominative case marker right periphery Topic Marker Drop This paper focuses on the Kumamoto dialect of Japanese, which is one of the Hitiku dialects of the Kyûsyû region. It differs from Standard Japanese in that it　allows the subject to be marked with the genitive case marker as well as the nominative case marker in independent sentences. In order to accommodate this　fact, and based on Nishioka’s (2022) analysis, the research argues that the genitive subject is licensed by nominal elements, including certain sentence final particles and Force located in the right periphery of independent sentences. We also hypothesize that the Case/Topic Marker Drop phenomenon is a natural consequence of the premise that a focus serves as an instruction for the phonological realization of emphasis. Thus, as long as the subject is non-focal, neither the case marker nor the topic marker is necessarily realized in the morpho-phonological component. In the Kumamoto dialect, sentence final particles play a critical role in both inducing the “de-emphasis” effects and allowing the presence of the genitive subject. As a corollary, our proposals make it possible to explicate the facts regarding the Case/Topic Marker Drop phenomenon in double subject constructions. 8 P 2024-03-08 eng departmental bulletin paper https://miyazaki-mu.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/2000023 AN10457429 1340-3613 宮崎公立大学人文学部紀要 Bulletin of Miyazaki Municipal University Faculty of Humanities 31 1 91 108 https://miyazaki-mu.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/2000023/files/31(1)_008_Fukuda.pdf application/pdf 8473 KB 2024-03-29