CASE VARIATION IN JAPANESE
The Japanese language has the developed case system, case markers are postpositions. There are four primary markers (ga, o, no, ni) denoting syntactic relations and several secondary markers with some additional meaning (instrument, direction etc.), zero marker is possible too. There are contexts in which different markers or marker and zero are possible, sometimes a slight semantic differentiation takes place, sometimes we can find pragmatic distinctions but in many cases markers are interchangeable. Some kinds of case variation in Japanese are analyzed in the article.