@article{oai:miyazaki-mu.repo.nii.ac.jp:02000023, author = {福田, 稔 and FUKUDA, Minoru and 古川, 武史 and FURUKAWA, Takeshi}, issue = {1}, journal = {宮崎公立大学人文学部紀要, Bulletin of Miyazaki Municipal University Faculty of Humanities}, month = {Mar}, note = {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, 論文, Article}, pages = {91--108}, title = {Genitive Subjects and Case Marker Drop in Japanese}, volume = {31}, year = {2024}, yomi = {フクダ, ミノル and フルカワ, タケシ} }