Author: Medziulyanova, Vasilina

Annotation: The article deals with the status of subject in the simple Japanese sentence. Two kinds of subject (direct and indirect) are grounded. Direct subject, marked by the particle ga, expresses the immediate agent of event from the sentence semantic structure. The indirect subject, marked by the particle wa, is related to the action or state through the direct subject. The holo-meronimic relation between indirect and direct subject in sentences with non-subjective predicate is established. If the predicate is subjective one, then the compound predicate acts as a part of the whole in relation to the indirect subject. The compound predicate expresses the characteristics of the person represented by indirect subject, through a part of his mental space.

Keywords: direct subject, indirect subject, simple sentence, particles wa and ga, subjective predicate, compound predicate, simple predicate, holo-meronimic, logical relation.

Pages in journal: 78 - 83