An ANOVA analysis of the nominative/genitive alternation in multiple nominative constructions in modern Japanese

Miyagawa (1993) originally observes that nominative objects of stative predicates may undergo nominative/genitive alternation in multiple nominative constructions in modern Japanese. In this survey, by using the structure where the genitive subject is followed by an adverb, insuring that it is within the prenominal sentential modifier, we investigated whether the nominative/genitive alternation would take place within the structure. Based on an ANOVA analysis, we found that (i) contrary to what has been assumed, genitive Case is not allowed in multiple Nominative constructions, and thus, the nominative/genitive alternation seems to be in the process of disappearing, and (ii) whether or not an adverb is placed in the sentence initial position, the results were fundamentally the same.