On Japanese Internally Headed Relative Clauses

Qualia Structure and the Accessibility of Arguments : Japanese Internally-Headed Relative Clauses with Implicit Target

The relationship between lexicon and pragmatics has been one of the most controversial issues in recent studies in linguistics. Lexicon in the conservative definition encodes only the information responsible for the regular syntactic mapping of lexical items. Any information that is not directly reflected in the syntactic structure is attributed to pragmatics. A more recent trend, in contrast, ...

Internally Headed Relative Clause Constructions in Korean

This paper attempts to analyze some grammatical aspects of the so called internally-headed relative clause construction in Korean. This paper proposes that the meaning of the external head kes is underspecified in the sense that its semantic content is filled in by co-indexing it to the internal head under appropriate conditions. This paper also argues that interpretation of kes is determined b...

On a Matching Effect in Headed Relative Clauses

A Multiple Inheritance Analysis of the Internally-Headed Relative Clause in Japanese

This paper proposes a mutliple inheritance type-hierarchical analysis of the Japanese "InternallyHeaded Relative Clause" (IHRC) in Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG). It has been a long standing issue whether the IHRC shares syntactic properties with the EHRC or it is basically a clausal complement structure. This paper claims that such bipartite debate is misguided. It is undeniable t...

Clausal Complement or Adverbial Clause?: Toward an Integral Account of the Japanese Internally-Headed Relative Clause

This paper proposes a constraint-based, comprehensive analysis of the Internally-Headed Relative Clause (henceforth, IHRC) in Japanese which is able to accommodate the synchronic properties as well as the diachronic change that IHRC went through. Various types of syntactic analyses have been proposed to date to explain the peculiar traits of IHRC as it is today. Philological studies in Japanese...