2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Comparative Study of Noun Phrases in East Asian Languages
| Project/Area Number |
22520397
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | Osaka University |
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Principal Investigator |
MIYAMOTO Yoichi 大阪大学, 大学院・言語文化研究科, 准教授 (50301271)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010 – 2012
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| Keywords | 名詞句 / N'削除 |
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| Research Abstract |
This study argues that Chinese makes use of adjunction to NP, as well as Kaynean (1994) head-raising, in order to form relative clauses. This proposal is based on the hitherto unobserved phenomena that Chinese relative clauses can trigger NP-ellipsis when they precede a numeral quantifier (NQ), but they cannot when they follow an NQ, which is the case for at least some native speakers of (Mandarin) Chinese. By way of contrast, the study also shows that Kaynean head-raising is not allowed in Japanese, contrary to Takahashi (2011), who claims that Japanese permits Kaynean head-raising in relative clause formation. The study concludes that nominal architecture is not uniform across head-final languages, thereby supporting Saito, Lin, and Murasugi (2008).
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