A Comparative Study of the Genitive Postposition / Particle in Hindi and Japanese

本研究旨在探讨日语和印地语中所有格结构的异同。日语中的语素no是格的所有格标记。印地语也有等同的所有格后置，‘kaa’在功能上等同于日语的no。此外，印地语还有另一个“连接词”--后缀“va alaa”。到目前为止，本研究的主要发现如下：(1)印地语‘kaa’和日语‘no’都用于所有格、主格、宾格和处所格；(2)在代词和补足词的功能中，‘kaa’或‘va alaa’都可以用作日语‘no’的大致对等词。具体地说，‘kaa’和‘va alaa’可能具有不同的代词功能。

This study is an exploration of similarities and differences found in genitive constructions in Japanese and Hindi. Japanese has the morpheme 'no' as a genitive case marker. Hindi also has an equivalent a genitive postposition, 'kaa' functionally equivalent to Japanese 'no'. In addition, Hindi has another 'connector'- the suffix 'vaalaa'.The main findings of this study so far are as follows: (1) both Hindi 'kaa' and Japanese 'no' are used for possessive, nominative, accusative and locative cases, (2) in the functions of pronominal and complementizer either 'kaa' or 'vaalaa' can be used as rough equivalents of Japanese 'no'. In particular, 'kaa' and 'vaalaa' possibly share different parts of the pronominal function.