Nominative-Genitive Conversion and Its Transitivity Restriction in Child Japanese
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Nominative-Genitive Conversion (NGC) in Japanese, which is also called Ga/No Conversion, is one of the most well-studied phenomena in Japanese syntax (see Harada 1971, 1976, Bedell 1972, Shibatani 1975, Nakai 1980, Saito 1983, 2004, Miyagawa 1993, to appear, Watanabe 1996, Hiraiwa 2001, 2005, and Ochi 2001, to appear, among many others). NGC is a Case alternation phenomenon in which the nominative Case marker ga on the subject DP is “converted” into the genitive Case marker no within a prenominal sentential modifier, as illustrated in (1).
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