Gapless Relative Clauses in Japanese
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Summary, in English
In Japanese, there is a unique type of relative clauses, a so-called ‘gapless relative clause’. The relation between the predicate in the relative clause and its head is not syntactic in the sense that the head noun does not have a co-indexed NP gap internal in the clause. The modification is established on semantic and pragmatic bases, since there is a semantic and/or pragmatic connection between the clause and its head in this type. Consequently, it is semantic and pragmatic approach, but not syntactic one, that can make an appropriate comprehension of gapless relative clauses in Japanese. This thesis offers detailed semantic and pragmatic approaches to gapless relative clauses, focusing on the predicate in the clause, but not on a gap in the clause, so as to get gapless relative clauses in Japanese into perspective.
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Publishing year
2010
Language
English
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Document type
Student publication for Bachelor's degree
Topic
- Languages and Literatures
Keywords
- noun-modifying clauses
- gapless
- relative clauses
- semantic
- pragmatic
Supervisor
- Lars Larm