postposition /ni/ 'on; at [time]; in'

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I will go to Kyoto on Sunday.

Key 1: The form /ni/ describes the relation describied with the preposition /on; at; in/ in English that holds between a point in time where an event occurs and the event.

Key 2: Since every clause (or sentence) describes an event, every clause (or sentence) CAN co-occur with a /ni/ phrase describing holding an event-occurring time.

Key 3: There is no difference in the truth-conditional meanings between a clause with an order among a SUBJECT phrase, an OBJECT phrase, topic phrases, and postpositional phrases and another clause with a different order among them.

1)        にちようびに             わたしは     きょうとに               いきます。
           Sunday-on              I-TOP        Kyoto-to                go-Polite Style-Present Affirmative

The phrase にちようびに 'Sunday-on'  modifies the event, and it must occur before the verb /ik/ 'go; will go'.