Kan and its sisters: They are defective verbs that enter into a nominal sentence, raising the subject, which is called its name, and placing the predicate in the accusative case, which is called its ...
My book "I Can't Write Serious Sentences" (Daiwa Shobo) has started to appear on bookstore shelves again. It is a long-selling book with 105,000 copies currently in print. This is the second ...