Questions tagged [deixis]
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The reality of answering いいえ to a negative question
tl;dr: when answering a negative question, can いいえ be used to affirm what the question states as a whole?
I came to Japan at the age of six, and I guess I pass as a normal native speaker of Japanese to most people (aside from some personal quirks…
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Why is it that some temporal nouns cannot be marked with に? And why do they become more acceptable with には?
Consider the following:
に here is used in its function of denoting the time where an event occurs (に1):
◯ 一時に1
◯ 一時半に1
◯ 月曜日に1
◯ 正月に1
* 昨日に1
?/◯ 昨日には
* 今日に1
?/◯ 今日には
* 明日に1
?/◯ 明日には
* 去年に1
?/◯ 去年には
* 今年に1
?/◯ 今年には
* 来年に1
?/◯ 来年には
* 最近に1
に becomes…
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What is the subject of sentence with ください?
For example, what is the subject of the following sentence?
八時に来るようにしてください。
The speaker or the opponent?
Second Person Shooter
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Speaking in first person without saying "I"
For example:
今日から明日まで勉強します。
kyou kara ashita made benkyou shimasu.
How do I know that the speaker talks about themselves?
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