Nominative Genitive Conversion: Strike Back with Feature Transmission and Cartography * Yusuke Yoda 0. Introduction In this paper, we will demonstrate the novel analysis of one of the Case-alternation phenomena, called Nominative Genitive Conversion (heareafter NGC) in Japanese, based on the Feature Transmission Theory (hereafter FTT; Chomsky, 2008; Takahashi, 2009; Takeuchi, 2011, etc.). Under the current theory, NGC is triggered by Phasehood of C 0 . If C 0 is a partitive C 0 , meaning that CP-projection does not equip ForceP (in the sense of the Cartographic Approach), NGC can be triggered. In addition, we assume that D 0 takes a higher position than CP, licensing genitive Case of the subject. The organization of this article is as follows: Section 1 looks at the basic properties of NGC. Section 2 looks at two main analyses of NGC. We will simply adopt the D 0 -licensing approach here without discussion (for further explanation, see Nambu and Yoda 2011a, b). In section 3, we present the main proposal of this article. In section 4, we exhibit our analyses based on our proposal. In section 5, we conclude this article. 1. Nominative Genitive Conversion. Japanese exhibits NGC in certain types of Embedded Clauses. The first theoretical analysis of NGC in Japanese goes back to Harada i (1971, 1976). In it, Harada provides several important observations such as: NGC takes place in Relative Clauses (RC), koto-Clauses, and no-Clauses, but not in to- Clauses, Infinitival Clauses, or ka-Clauses as in (1) and (2). (1) a. [ RC Taro-{ga/no) yonda] hon-ga ichiban omoshiroi. Taro-Nom/Gen read book-Nom the most interesting. ‘The book Taro read is the most interesting.’ b. [ KOTO Taro-wa [Hanako-{ga/no} kekkon-shita koto]-o shira-nakatta. Taro-Top Hanako-Nom/Gen marry-did that-Acc knew-not ‘Taro did not know that Mary got married’ c. [ NO Taro-wa [Hanako-{ga/no} kekkon-shita no]-o shira-nakatta. Taro-Top Hanako-Nom/Gen marry-did that-Acc knew-not ‘Taro did not know that Mary got married.’ (2) a. Taro-wa [ TO Hanako-{ga/*no} kekkon-shita -to] omotteita. Taro-Top Hanako- Nom/Gen marry-did -C thought. ‘Taro thought that Hanako got married.’