This paper examines the so-called internally headed relative clause construction in
Japanese, with particular focus on new data that involve quantificational NPs and wh …

Two strategies are commonly used across languages to form relative clauses and similar
constructions. First, and most common, are externally-headed constructions, where the head …

Relative clauses in Japanese and Korean appear to represent a minimal contrast: modern
Japanese lacks the affixal complementizers characteristic of adnominal clauses in Korean …

This paper aims to clarify and resolve issues surrounding the so-called formal linking
problem in interpreting the Internally Headed Relative Clause construction in Korean and …

The starting point for my paper is the discussion of Japanese" relative clauses" by
Matsumoto (1988). In this work, and with some further elaboration in my own work (Comrie …

The purpose of this paper is two-fold. The first is to discuss the basic properties of Japanese
relative clauses, both head-external and head-internal. The second is to consider how those …

Abstract Grosu (J East Asian Linguist 19: 231–274, 2010) argues against analyses of
Japanese and Korean internally headed relative clauses in terms of discourse anaphora …

It is frequently reported in the descriptive and theoretical literature that Austronesian
languages have head-initial relative clauses (Dixon 1988, Georgopolous 1991, Josephs …

This paper attempts to show that internally headed relative clauses in Korean can be best
characterized by their semantic and pragmatic properties, especially via lexically inherent …

Appositive relative clauses are “strange animals.” Linguists have made a variety of different
attempts to define them, mostly syntactically, less so semantically. Still, the usual description …