Perspectives on Topicalization

1. Preface; 2. Part I: Wa in narrative and expository discourse; 3. The use of wa as a cohesion marker in Japanese oral narratives (by Clancy, Patricia M.); 4. Thematization as a staging device in the Japanese narrative (by Maynard, Senko K.); 5. Thematization, assumed familiarity, staging, and syntactic binding in Japanese (by Hinds, John); 6. Identifiability, scope-setting, and the particle wa: A study of Japanese spoken expository discourse (by Iwasaki, Shoichi); 7. A study of the so-called topic wa in passages from Tolstoi, Lawrenceand Faulkner (of course, in Japanese translation) (by Kuroda, S.-Y.); 8. Part II: Wa and other syntactic phenomena; 9. The role of wa in negation (by McGloin, Naomi Hanaoka); 10. Wa and the WH phrase (by Miyagawa, Shigeru); 11. Part III: Historical perspectives on wa; 12. Functions of the theme marker wa from synchronic and diachronic perspectives (by Ueno, Noriko Fujii); 13. Wa in diachronic perspective (by Wolf, Charles M. De); 14. Part IV: Pragmatic perspectives on wa; 15. How relevant is a functional notion of communicative orientation to ga and wa? (by Makino, Seiichi); 16. Abbreveations