scholarly journals The pro-head analysis of the Japanese internally-headed relative clause

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chisato Kitagawa
Keyword(s):  
Relative Clause ◽  
Internally Headed Relative Clause

scholarly journals Differences between externally and internally headed relative clause constructions

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chan Chung ◽  
Jong-Bok Kim
Keyword(s):  
Relative Clause ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Central Interest ◽  
Truth Conditional ◽  
Internally Headed Relative Clause ◽  
Internal Head

In terms of truth conditional meanings, there is no clear difference between (Korean) IHRCs (internally head relative) and EHRCs (externally headed relative). In the analysis of IHRCs, of central interest are thus (a) how we can analyze the constructions in syntax and (b) how we can associate the internal head of the IHRC clause with the matrix predicate so that the head can function as its semantic argument, and (c) what makes the differences between the two constructions. This paper is an attempt to provide answers to such recurring questions within the framework of HPSG.

Japanese embedded questions are nominal: Evidence from quantificational variability effect

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-156
Author(s):  
Satoshi Tomioka
Keyword(s):  
Relative Clause ◽  
Matrix Clause ◽  
Selectional Restrictions ◽  
Embedded Questions ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Concealed Questions ◽  
Interrogative Sentence ◽  
Internally Headed Relative Clause ◽  
Numeral Classifier ◽  
Quantificational Variability

AbstractThe exhaustivity of an embedded interrogative sentence can be altered by the presence of an adverb in the matrix clause. This phenomenon, known as Quantificational Variability Effect (QVE), manifests itself in a peculiar way in Japanese. A QVE-inducing adverb can take the form of a numeral classifier that agrees with the embedded Wh-phrase. While a QVE-inducing numeral classifier appears to be associated with an embedded wh-phrase, it is not clear how such an association can be established. I argue that Japanese embedded questions are implicitly nominalized in the fashion similar to the internally-headed relative clause construction, and that the nominalized embedded questions are treated as concealed questions. The proposed analysis gives a very simple account for the puzzling QVE construction, as the floated quantifier structure with a concealed-question-denoting NP is commonplace. The paper examines a variety of phenomena, such as doubly headed relative clause structure and selectional restrictions on QVE, which support the nominal structure of Japanese embedded questions.

scholarly journals Clausal complement or adverbial clause?

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiharu Uda Kikuta
Keyword(s):  
Relative Clause ◽  
Structural Aspect ◽  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Diachronic Change ◽  
Argument Realization ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Adverbial Clauses ◽  
Internally Headed Relative Clause ◽  
Adverbial Clause

This paper proposes a constraint-based, comprehensive analysis of the Internally-Headed Relative Clause (IHRC) in Japanese which is able to accommodate the synchronic properties as well as the diachronic change that IHRC went through. This paper claims that IHRC should be defined as a special type of non-head daughter of the main predicate. The predicate is subcategorized for a clause, while it calls for an entity-like argument. The multi-level architecture of HPSG accommodates the apparent syntax-semantic mismatch. The IHRC is syntactically a clausal complement, while it is not semantically selected by the main predicate. The main predicate, on the other hand, selects an entity as its argument, but the entity is not syntactically given. I claim that the syntax of IHRC specifies this much. The rest, or the actual linkage between the predicate and the semantically required target entity is semantically or pragmatically achieved. Drawing on the ideas of Argument Realization and Argument Extension with the postulation of the interface level DEPENDENTS proposed in Bouma et al. (2001), I have demonstrated how the present proposal can connect the clausal complement, IHRC, and adverbial clauses, thus providing the structural aspect of the motivation for the diachronic change.

Emotion Nouns Pulverize Spanish Relative Clause High- Attachment Preferences

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabel Fraga ◽  
Ana Pineiro ◽  
Carlos Acuna ◽  
Jaime Redondo
Keyword(s):  
Relative Clause
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