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Publication details [#29857]

Sadakane, Kumi and Masatoshi Koizumi. 1995. On the nature of the "dative" particle ni in Japanese. Linguistics 33 (1) : 5–33.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

case marking | dative | particle

Language as a subject

Japanese

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter Mouton

ISBN

0024-3949

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/LING/html

Annotation

This paper explores types, behavior and acquisition of the particle NI in Japanese, which shows features of both case markers and postpositions, and demonstrates that this double-featured nature presents no real challenge to Kuroda's (1965) and Miyagawa's (1989) dichotomy.