Differences between listing particles と, や and に Consider the following: * A, B and C came: 1. ABC 2. ABC 3. ABC **What do I need to consider when deciding which of the three (, , ) to use?** I think a large portion is determined by the type of verb used. I shall generalise into two groups: 1. Reciprocal type - marry; meet; be similar 2. Non-reciprocal type - see; walk; be interesting Ambiguity may result from using listing particles with reciprocal type verbs: * AB (Ambiguous) * A and B got married (to each other) * A and B got married (independent instances) * AB (Not ambiguous) * A and B got married (independent instances among others (example-giving nuance of )) But for these cases: * AB * AB Can they receive listing interpretation similar to ABC? Will be forced to be dative? How about when the sentence is rearranged to: * BA * BA Can this receive a listing interpretation? Will be forced to be dative?

I have the feeling that `` under the relevant usage is used adverbially and implies "remembering the item one after another while listing", and I think it requires at least three items. Two is too short for remembering one after another.

> ABC
> ?* AB
> ABC
> ?* AB

`` cannot have a dative argument, and I guess the structure of `ABC` is `A[B[C]]` "C will get married, in addition to B, in addition to A", rather than `[ABC]`, so it cannot have the reciprocal interpretation. `BA` is completely ungrammatical.

If you wanted to do a listing interpretation for ``, which takes a dative argument, then you can do this:

> AB()CD (A, B: listing interpretation, D: dative)
> 'A, and B, and also C, met D'
> ABC()D (B, C: listing interpretation, D: dative)
> 'A met B, and C, and also D'