Title: | The Syntax-Semantics of Japanese/Korean Internally Headed Relative Clause Constructions |
Author: | Alexander Grosu |
Publication: | Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai. Philologia, LIV (4), p. 169 |
p-ISSN: | 1220-0484 |
e-ISSN: | 2065-9652 |
Publisher: | Editura Presa Universitară Clujeană |
Place: | Cluj-Napoca |
Year: | 2009 |
Abstract: | This paper argues for a number of substantive modifications in earlier analyses of the syntax-semantics of I(nternally) H(eaded) R(elative)s of Japanese and Korean. In contrast to Hoshi (1995), Shimoyama (1999), and especially Kim (2007), who view the relative clause as a proposition containing a DP that forms an E-type anaphoric dependency with a relative-external anaphor, the analysis proposed in this paper views the relative clause as denoting a singleton predicate, thereby bringing these IHRs under a common semantic umbrella with other syntactically distinct relative clause constructions that share with these IHRs the property of necessarily having definite/maximalizing semantics. This paper also offers solutions for certain types of data that raise serious empirical problems for Kim's analysis, in particular, IHRs whose internal head forms a long-distance island-sensitive dependency with the 'anaphor', and IHRs whose head is something other than a singular definite or existentially quantified nominal. |
Key words: | internally headed relative, restricted e-type anaphora, unbounded dependency |
Language: | English |
Links: | html |
Citations to this publication: 1
1 | Florin Sterian | Bibliografia românească de lingvistică (BRL, 54, 2011). Lucrări de lingvistică apărute în țara noastră în cursul anului 2011 | LR, LXI (4), 437-576 | 2012 | pdf html |
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3 | Alexandru Grosu | Romanian Unexpected Relatives | RRL, LIV (1-2), 45-62 | 2009 | pdf html |
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