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属格结构的异同。日语用语素“no”作为属格标记。印地语也有一个对等的属格后置，“kaa”在功能上相当于日语的“no”。此外，印地语还有另一个“连接器”——后缀“vaalaa”。本研究的主要发现如下：(1)印地语的“kaa”和日语的“no”都用于所有格、主格、宾格和位置情况；(2)在代词和补语的功能上，“kaa”和“vaalaa”都可以作为日语“no”的大致等价物。特别是，“kaa”和“vaalaa”可能共享代词功能的不同部分。

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.