Case Particles in Japanese

Aditya Thakur

Why?
Words do not make sense. Particles make sentence meaningful
structurally semantically

Particles
Case particles kakujyoshi Fukujyoshi Shujyoshi Setsuzokujyoshi

Case Particles
Attached to the nouns in sentence Specify the nouns grammatical and semantic relation to other units of the sentence

Tsujimura 1996 Regards case particles as representing four case prominent in European languages nominative, genitive, dative,accusative
Are distinguished from postpositions : , encode spatial and temporal relations

Types of cases
The nominative case is used to express the subject of a statement Yamada-san ga ochya o nonda eg Mr. Yamada drank tea. The genitive case is used to express possession Suzuki san no jisho eg. Dictionary of Mr. Suzuki.

Types of cases (contd.)

The dative case expresses the recipient of an action, the indirect object of a verb. Tanaka san ha buchou ni atta. e.g. Mr. Tanaka met the manager. The accusative case expresses the direct object of a verb or direction or extent of motion Inu ha kouen wo hashitta. e.g. Dog ran in the park