TY - JOUR
T1 - The status of the internally-headed relatives of Japanese/Korean within the typology of definite relatives
AU - Grosu, Alexander
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Acknowledgments First and foremost, I wish to express my overwhelming gratitude to Akira Watanabe, without whose help—both as a native consultant and as an adviser on subtle aspects of Japanese syntax and pragmatics—this paper could never have achieved its present form. His patience and helpfulness have gone way beyond any normal inter-collegial expectations, and I am most deeply indebted to him. Heartfelt thanks are also due to Yusuke Imanishi, Junya Nomura and Rachel Hastings for valuable help with a variety of data. I am furthermore very grateful to two anonymous reviewers, who, on two successive rounds of refereeing, have urged me to investigate a much wider range of data than I initially intended to, and whose sharp and penetrating remarks have substantively contributed to making this a better paper. I also wish to thank the three JEAL editors for their constant encouragement during my work on this project. To Fred Landman, I am indebted for illuminating discussion that resulted in an initial joint submission. If this article ended up single-authored and quite different in orientation and content from the original draft, it is largely due to Fred’s 2-year sabbatical leave, which put several thousand miles between us and made collaboration unrealistic. Lastly, I wish to thank Julia Horvath, Istvan Kenesei, Hadas Kotek, Philippe Schlenker and the audiences at the Generative Grammatik des nordenS in Berlin, May 2010, and at the workshop Adjectives and Relative Clauses in Venice, June 2010, for helpful comments and useful discussion of various aspects of this paper. None of these persons is in any way responsible for the use I have made of their ideas or suggestions, and all remaining faults are entirely my own. This research was supported by THE ISRAEL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (grant No. 700/06).
PY - 2010/11
Y1 - 2010/11
N2 - The principal thesis defended in this paper is that the most recent and successful approach to the internally-headed relative (IHR) constructions of Japanese and Korean, i.e., the one in Kim (Nat Lang Semant 15:279-315, 2007)-which proposes, building on Hoshi (Structural and interpretive aspects of head-internal and head-external relative clauses, Ph. D. dissertation, University of Rochester, 1995) and Shimoyama (J East Asian Linguist 8:147-182, 1999; Wh-constructions in Japenese, Ph. D. dissertation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2001), that the analysis of these IHRs needs to rely on the E-type strategy-is demonstrably wrong empirically in relation to both the procedure for licensing IHs and the characterization of temporal relations between the IHR and its matrix, as well as conceptually objectionable in attaching the E-type label to analyses that have to rely on mechanisms that are entirely independent of those used in analyses of E-type anaphora in discourse. The paper proposes an alternative analysis that avoids the difficulties encountered by E-type analyses, and which relies on local equation of the IH with a variable, ultimately assigning to the relative clause the status of a singleton predicate, thereby bringing these IHRs under the more general umbrella of definite/maximalizing relative constructions, while at the same time providing a motivated account of certain similarities between such IHRs and E-type anaphora, which, while real, do not justify an analytical reduction of the former to the latter.
AB - The principal thesis defended in this paper is that the most recent and successful approach to the internally-headed relative (IHR) constructions of Japanese and Korean, i.e., the one in Kim (Nat Lang Semant 15:279-315, 2007)-which proposes, building on Hoshi (Structural and interpretive aspects of head-internal and head-external relative clauses, Ph. D. dissertation, University of Rochester, 1995) and Shimoyama (J East Asian Linguist 8:147-182, 1999; Wh-constructions in Japenese, Ph. D. dissertation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2001), that the analysis of these IHRs needs to rely on the E-type strategy-is demonstrably wrong empirically in relation to both the procedure for licensing IHs and the characterization of temporal relations between the IHR and its matrix, as well as conceptually objectionable in attaching the E-type label to analyses that have to rely on mechanisms that are entirely independent of those used in analyses of E-type anaphora in discourse. The paper proposes an alternative analysis that avoids the difficulties encountered by E-type analyses, and which relies on local equation of the IH with a variable, ultimately assigning to the relative clause the status of a singleton predicate, thereby bringing these IHRs under the more general umbrella of definite/maximalizing relative constructions, while at the same time providing a motivated account of certain similarities between such IHRs and E-type anaphora, which, while real, do not justify an analytical reduction of the former to the latter.
KW - Definite/maximalizing relatives
KW - E-type anaphora
KW - Internally-headed relatives
KW - Semantics
KW - The Relevancy Condition
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U2 - 10.1007/s10831-010-9061-0
DO - 10.1007/s10831-010-9061-0
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AN - SCOPUS:78249256292
SN - 0925-8558
VL - 19
SP - 231
EP - 274
JO - Journal of East Asian Linguistics
JF - Journal of East Asian Linguistics
IS - 3
ER -