Chapter 1 　Introduction
1.1 Background
1.2 Main Claims of the Monograph
1.3 Organization of the Monograph

Chapter 2 　Previous Analyses: Case Theory and Nominal Licensing
2.1 The Case Filter in Chomsky (1980, 1981, and His Subsequent Work)
2.2 Arguments for and against the Case Filter
2.2.1 In Support of the Case Filter
2.2.2 Remaining Issues
2.3 The Case Filter in Levin (2015)
2.3.1 The Revised Case Filter
2.3.2 Counterargument against Levin’s (2015) Analysis
2.4 Concluding Remarks

Chapter 3 　A Parametric Approach to Agree and Case Valuation in Languages with or without Phi-Feature Agree
3.1 Languages with Phi-Feature Agree
3.1.1 Brief History of Phi-Feature Agree
3.1.2 The Valuation of [uCase] under Chomsky’s Approach
3.2 Languages without Phi-Feature Agree
3.2.1 The Absence of Phi-Feature Agree in Japanese
3.2.2 Previous Approaches
3.2.2.1 Takezawa (1987)
3.2.2.2 Bošković (2007) and Saito (2014, 2016)
3.2.3 Nominative Case Assignment within a Verb Phrase
3.2.3.1 Nominative Objects
3.2.3.2 Miyagawa (2001)
3.2.3.3 Kumamoto Japanese
3.2.3.4 A Short Note on the EPP Requirement in Japanese
3.2.3.5 Subject-In-Situ Generalization
3.3 Case Valuation with Upward Agree
3.3.1 The Mechanism of Upward Agree
3.3.2 Analysis with Upward Agree for Case Valuation
3.3.3 The Difference in Case Valuation in English and Japanese:
Parameterization of the Feature Specifications on the Phase Heads
3.4 Concluding Remarks

Chapter 4 　Two Types of Nominal Licensing Conditions and the
Theoretical Implementation of Default Case
4.1 Default Case
4.1.1 The Presence of Default Case
4.1.2 Theoretical Implementation of Default Case
4.1.3 On the Presence of [uCase] at the Interfaces
4.2 Optional Valuation of [uCase]: Optional Application of Agree
4.3 Two Types of Nominal Licensing Conditions
4.3.1 Copy Formation and Nominal Licensing
4.3.2 Features Serving as Licensors of Nominals
4.4 Concluding Remarks

Chapter 5 　The Existential There-Construction in English
5.1 Case-Marking in the Existential There-Construction
5.1.1 Nominative Case Approach
5.1.2 Partitive Case Approach
5.1.3 Structural Accusative Case Approach
5.1.4 Default Case Approach in Sobin (2014)
5.1.4.1 Gratuitous Feature Value of the Expletive There
5.1.4.2 Problems with Sobin (2014)
5.2 Proposal: Alternative Default Case Analysis
5.2.1 Feature Composition of the Expletive There
5.2.2 A Brief Note on the Absence of the v*P Phase in the Existential There-Construction
5.2.3 The Merger of the Expletive There
5.2.3.1 The Distribution of the Expletive There
5.2.3.2 The [There, LSET] Analysis
5.2.4 Agreement and the Realization of LSETs with Default Case
5.3 Nominal Licensing of LSETs
5.3.1 Licensing of In-Situ LSETs
5.3.2 (Un)availability of QR and Nominal Licensing
5.3.3 Wh-Movement in the Existential There-Construction
5.3.3.1 The Regular Pattern
5.3.3.2 The Who/Whom Puzzle
5.4 Short Remarks on the Distribution of the Expletive It
5.5 Concluding Remarks
Appendix: Speculations on the Peculiar Agreement in the
Existential There-Construction

Chapter 6　 Mad Magazine Sentences and Some Notes on the
Presence/Absence of Nominative Case Assignment
6.1 Mad Magazine Sentences
6.1.1 A Quintessential Example
6.1.2 Unavailability of Nominative Case on Subjects
6.1.2.1 Infinitival T
6.1.2.2 On the Presence of C
6.1.2.3 Obligatory Movement of Subjects in MMs
6.1.3 Remarkable Properties of Subjects in MMs
6.1.3.1 Incompatibility with Expletives
6.1.3.2 Compatibility with Bare Quantificational Expressions
6.1.3.3 Focus Sensitivity of Subjects in MMs
6.1.4 A Toy Derivation of MMs and Licensing of Subjects with Focus
6.2 Obligatory Nominative Case Assignment
6.2.1 Basic Facts
6.2.2 Nominative Case Assignment and Licensing of Subjects
6.2.3 Unavailability of Salvation by Discourse Effects
6.2.3.1 No Discourse Effect
6.2.3.2 Impossibility of Local Topicalization and Local Focalization
6.3 Fragment Answers
6.4 Left Dislocation
6.5 Concluding Remarks

Chapter 7 　Default Case in Japanese and Licensing of Caseless Subjects
7.1 Basic Facts in Nominative Case Realization in Japanese
7.1.1 Impossibility of Nominative Case-Marker Drop
7.1.2 Nominative Case-Marker Drop Is Possible in Some Cases
7.2 Default Case in Japanese
7.3 Licensing of Subjects with Nominative Case
7.4 Licensing of Caseless Subjects in Unaccusative and Passive Sentences
7.5 Licensing of Caseless Subjects with Yo
7.5.1 Masunaga (1988)
7.5.2 Alternative Analysis
7.6 Focus and Base-Generated Aboutness Topic
7.6.1 Licensing of Caseless Subjects with Focus
7.6.2 Licensing of Caseless Subjects Interpreted as Aboutness Topic
7.6.3 Some Notes on Universal Quantifiers
7.7 Division of Labor
7.8 Concluding Remarks

Chapter 8 　Scrambling and Licensing of Caseless Objects
8.1 Turkish
8.1.1 Previous Observations
8.1.2 Default Case in Turkish
8.1.3 Analysis
8.1.3.1 Licensing of In-Situ Caseless Objects
8.1.3.2 Licensing of Scrambled Caseless Objects
8.1.4 Further Consequences in Turkish
8.2 Japanese
8.2.1 Apparent Surface Adjacency Condition on Caseless Objects
8.2.2 Licensing of In-Situ Caseless Objects
8.2.3 Licensing of Scrambled Caseless Objects
8.2.4 Speculations on Scrambling of Wh-Objects in Japanese
8.2.4.1 Illicit Scrambling of Caseless Wh-Objects
8.2.4.2 Some Notes on Takahashi’s (1993) Analysis
8.3 Korean
8.3.1 Basic Facts in Korean
8.3.2 Default Case in Korean
8.3.3 Analysis
8.3.3.1 Licensing of In-Situ Caseless Objects
8.3.3.2 Licensing of Scrambled Caseless Objects
8.4 Concluding Remarks

Chapter 9　 Implications for Parameterization in English and Japanese:
A View from Child Language Acquisition
9.1 ‘Apparent’ Case Errors in Child English and Child Japanese
9.2 Previous Analyses
9.2.1 Schütze and Wexler (1996)
9.2.2 Guasti and Rizzi (2002)
9.2.3 Genitive Subjects in Child and Adult Japanese
9.3 Size of Clause
9.4 The Default Feature Specifi cation on C and Its Implications
9.4.1 C with [NOM] for Nominative Case Assignment
9.4.2 C with [vTop] for Aboutness Topic
9.4.3 C with [+N] for Genitive Case Assignment
9.5 Analysis
9.5.1 Nominative Subjects in Child English
9.5.2 Subjects with Default Case in Child English and Child Japanese
9.5.3 Genitive Subjects in Child English and Child Japanese
9.6 Concluding Remarks

Chapter 10 　Conclusion

References
Index