Direct Object

It has been argued by LaPolla (1993, 1995) and Van Valin and LaPolla (1997) -- among others -- that word order in Mandarin Chinese (henceforth MC) is (almost) exclusively determined …...

. In past studies, there have been two major lines of analyses of the func- tion/meaning of the particle wa in Japanese in its thematic use. Some scholars argue that …...