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Re:Japanese Grammar in EBNF notation by glandium on Sunday January 05, 2020 @08:58AM (#21961255)
I don't see this as a case of precendence.of に vs は but rather as a case of に being associated with いる, and that without it, いる人 is incomplete.
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Re:Japanese Grammar in EBNF notation by bsza on Sunday January 05, 2020 @10:20AM (#21961581)
いる人 by itself means "a person who exists". Not something that would come up in everyday speech, but the grammar checks out, I think. Might sound more natural to replace いる人 with 生きてる人 though.
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