Questions tagged [dative-subject-constructions]

Consider these sentences: だれ{が・に}これが出来るか だれ{が・に}日本語が分からないか When both が and に are acceptable, what is their difference in meaning and practical usage?

I just finished reading this paper, which describes the situations in which Japanese allows a dative subject and a nominative object. For example, the verb 分かる can be used like this: 彼に英語が分かる "彼" is the subject but is marked with "に" instead of…

Back to basics. I have heard sentences similar to these ones online that attest the same…

I am having a hard time trying to parse the following passage, in particular the に particle highlighted in…