This handbook gives the reader an overview of Japanese Postpesitions which have a wide range of functions, such as case marking, adverbial, copulative, conjunctive and modality expressing roles. The aim of this book is to provide the reader general linguistic features with a wealth of concrete examples, Therefore, this introduction to Japanese postpositions, on the one hand, facilitates learners of Japanese at all levels in understanding its structures and their meanings and thus using them correctly. On the other hand, it enables linguists to gain an insight into the case system and syntactic structures of the Japanese language; it also clarifies the agentiess features, a strong dependency on the context for understanding texts or discourse; and finally the manifestations of subjectivity inherent to the Japanese language. Suggestions for further reading, which are given in footnotes, enable students and researchers to find their way to more detailed fields of Japanese linguistics "Noriko Katsuk-Pestemer is Lecturer of Japanese language and Japanese linguistic at the University of Trier. Shes the author of Japanese textbooks for Undergraduate students at German universities: Grundstudium Japanisch Volume + (1990) and Volume 2 (1991); Jepanisch fir Antainger Volumes 1 and 2(1996) Lsast 52 ISBN 3.89506 855 8 LINCOM EUROPA demic publications Japanese Postpositions Theory and Practice Noriko Katsuki-Pestemer s in Asian Linguistics a 8LINCOM Studies in Asian LinguisticsJapanese Postpositions Theory and Practice Noriko Katsuki-Pestemer full text research abstracts of al titles, monthly updates LINCOM webshop 2003 www.lincom-europa.com LINCOM EUROPA