@article{oai:konan-u.repo.nii.ac.jp:00003633, author = {谷守, 正寛 and TANIMORI, Masahiro}, journal = {言語と文化, The Journal of the Institute for Language and Culture}, month = {Mar}, note = {application/pdf, In this paper, with regard to Japanese nominal copula sentences including the ones terminating with a copula da preceded by an adjectival noun that is regarded as a kind of noun here and adjectival copula sentences terminating with a copula preceded by an i-adjective, the author considers the essential prototype of these two types of sentences to be designated by 'A wa B' possibly without the Japanese copula da or without its polite equivalent desu, partly due to the linguistic fact that the copula is not necessarily indispensable for framing Japanese nominal sentences and adjectival sentences. 'A wa B' can be understood by the simbolic expression 'A ⊇ B' that this study represents as a new paradigm of the prototype. All the elements in B are contained within the domain of the topic A and are ready to be flexibly linked to A in the speaker's brain when starting to give utterance. Also, this study proposes that ga-marked argument and o-marked argument that play central roles in the group of Case particles may work as supplementary Case elements, which is a new concept here, in the same way as other arguments or adjuncts marked by other Case particles such as ni, e, de, kara, made, no, to, yori, etc. By the default setting of the essential prototype 'A wa B' of Japanese nominal sentences and adjectival sentences as unagi-sentence (or akebono-sentence), we will see a new paradigm where wa may function as a connector of a topic (A) and a predicational element (B) without a logical Case relation between them and also will be able to grasp r easonable illustrations that may let supplementary Case elements properly behave between a topic and a sentence-ending predicational element.}, pages = {89--112}, title = {日本語の名詞・形容詞の主題コピュラ文における統語論的問題についての一考察}, volume = {24}, year = {2020}, yomi = {タニモリ, マサヒロ} }