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Discourse analysis of Japanese particles?
Have there been any English language attempts (preferably readily-available) to define Japanese particles from the perspective of discourse analysis? Some of the things I would be interested to see ...
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Indo-European prepositions: whence did they come?
What manner of theories are there on the origin of Indo-European case-like prepositions (usually; they were originally postpositions, and a handful of languages still have postpositions)? They seem ...
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How common is a topic particle beyond just Japanese and Korean?
Both Japanese and Korean are "topic-comment" languages and both have an explicit topic particle.
(I believe Chinese might be an example of a topic-comment language without a topic particle but I may ...
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Are the Japanese and Korean subject particles known to be related in any way?
Japanese and Korean have strikingly similar grammars but whether they are related or not is an open question.
Both languages have a particle to mark the grammatical subject of a sentence and in fact ...
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Are there any papers etc analyzing Japanese as a language with noun cases rather than particles?
Japanese is often included in lists of agglutinating languages.
Many (most?) agglutinating languages are analysed as having case systems.
Of course cases and prepositions/postpositions fill the same ...
