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The first difference between daga and ga / keredo(mo) / noni / shikashi 1
dakedo /demo is the way they combine two sentences. Daga, dakedo,
shikashi and demo are always used as a sentence-initial conjunction, but ga
and noni are normally used as a non-sentence-initial conjunction, and
keredo(mo) is used either as a sentence-initial conjunction or a non-sen.
tence-initial conjunction.

Sentence-initial conjunctions:

Non-sentence-initial conjunctions:
e. S1 tif, Szo ???S1, hf Sz,
f. S1 OIL, SZO *S,, aC= Sza

(Non-)Sentence-initial conjunction:

The second difference concerns semantic difference. Ga and keredo(mo) can
be used to in two senses of 'but' and 'and.'
v$ti It3
[I] +R%l:&~b4.f iW / cfhz /*cnK), RZG2, TCiP,
*di ?I a-m,
(I'm in Tokyo now, and I feel that Tokyo is full of energy, after all.)
For the difference between keredo(mo) and noni, see DBJG: 333-35. Among
the four sentence-initial conjunctions, the most colloquial is demo, followed
by dakedo and the least colloquial one is daga, followed by shikashi.