Japanese relative clauses

Japanese relative clauses precede their head with no relativizer and no relative pronoun. The relativized position is normally left empty, and this relativizes subjects, direct objects and indirect objects freely and obliques and genitives for some noun phrases; objects of comparison are not relativized, though the paper judges the result not too bad. A pronoun may instead be retained, and only when the relativized position is a genitive. The data are [KC77]'s.

References

• [KC77]
• [KC79]

def Japanese.relZero : Relativizer

The zero relativizer of the unmarked prenominal clause: the relativized position is left empty from subjects through genitives, and at a genitive a pronoun may instead be retained.

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def Japanese.relativizers : List Relativizer

The Japanese relativizers.

Equations

• Japanese.relativizers = [Japanese.relZero]