Syntactic behaviour of case and adverbial particles in Japanese∗

要旨

There are some problems in sub‐classifying the case particle ni marking indirect object as a syntactic case particle, and adverbial particles such as sae (even), demo (even, or something), sika (only), and sura (even) as modal particles, for they can be identified as a semantic case particle and predicate particles respectively. Taking into account Watanabe's (1971) arguments that deletion of case particles applies to strong case particles and that combination of case particles with the genitive particle no applies to weak case particles, we will establish in terms of syntactic strength five criteria for ranking case particles and two criteria for ranking adverbial particles. We will then make a survey of syntactic behaviour of case and adverbial particles to establish their power‐based syntactic hierarchies. Finally, we will consider whether such hierarchies will shed light on the above sub‐classificatory problems with the case and adverbial particles.

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