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Gapless Relative Clauses in Japanese

In English

Författare

  • Natsuki Kessira

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.

Avdelning/ar

Publiceringsår

2010

Språk

Engelska

Dokumenttyp

Examensarbete för kandidatexamen

Ämne

  • Languages and Literatures

Nyckelord

  • noun-modifying clauses
  • gapless
  • relative clauses
  • semantic
  • pragmatic

Handledare

  • Lars Larm