A Study on the Essential Meaning of Japanese Case Marker“カラ”: Based on the Essential Meaning Theory of Case Marker

The Japanese case marker "カラ" indicates grammatical relationships between the noun and the predicate in the "noun-case marker-predicate" structure. The essential meaning of the marker is the commencement-continuation movement and varies with the interaction between the noun and the predicate in different syntactic contexts. It is argued that the 11 meanings produced in various syntactic contexts based on semantic features each corresponds to a constant essential meaning.