Head-Internal Relative Clauses in Japanese and the Interpretation of Indefinite NPs
西垣内 泰介, Taisuke Nishigauchi · Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB) · 2004
In this paper I consider syntactic and semantic properties of head-internal relative clauses (HIRC) in Japanese.I argue that the properties of HIRCs in Japanese can be shown to follow from the following two proposals:1.The semantic content of the HIRC induces E-type pronouns in the sense of Evans (1980).2. The semantic content of an HIRC constitutes a thetic judgment, as against the categorical judgment, in the sense of Frantz Brentano.Cf.Kuroda (1972, 1992), Ladusaw (1994), Basilico (1998, 2003) etc.The first of these, which makes reference to an E-type pronoun, captures a substantial part of the restrictions on the relation of the HIRC to the rest of the sentence.The second, on the other hand, explains the properties internal to the HIRC.I.