En réponse à Nik Taylor :
>And that historically, "ga" was also a genitive marker (preserved in the
>prefix waga- "my", where the "wa" represents the archaic pronoun "ware",
>IIRC, there are also some dialects that still use "ga" as a genitive),
>the nominative use having originated in subclauses as well.
Do we know what particle Japanese used to mark the subject before ga became
the norm? Or was Japanese so different at that time that it didn't have
such a particle?
Christophe Grandsire.
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