In Accusative^x, Determiners^x

Hello Roro Yeah, you are right. The quantifiers in Japanese behave in very peculiar ways. "Kare-wa sanko-no ringo-wo tabe-ta" is "He ate three apples". "Kare-wa ringo-wo sanko tabe-ta". How would you translate it into English? To me the isolated "sanko" sounds like an adverbial noun. So my try...

Hello paco, thank you for your reply & references. I got interested more and more. First of all, yes, in Russian we use accusative case to express temporal duration. In order to express some time zone (like 'this morning') there are some means but I usually use bare instrumental case forms....