アカソ ナオユキ   AKASO NAOYUKI
  赤楚 治之
   所属   外国語学部
   職種   教授
言語種別 英語
発行・発表の年月 2011/06
形態種別 研究論文(学術雑誌)
標題 On the Categorial Status of Japanese Relative Clauses
執筆形態 共著
掲載誌名 English Linguistics
掲載区分国内
巻・号・頁 28-1.,pp.91-106
著者・共著者 原口 智子
概要 This paper claims that the syntactic category of Japanese relative clauses can be larger than TP. The fact that Focus Particles can be found within Japanese relative clauses shows that the licenser, Focus-head, should be located at the CP-zone, adopting Rizzi’s (1997, 2004) cartographic analysis, on the assumption that Focus Particles can be licensed in situ. However, not every relative clause is larger than TP. We will present new data on Nominative/Genitive Conversion, which lead to a generalization that Focus Particles cannot appear in Japanese relative clauses where genitive subjects are allowed. This can be explained straightforwardly if we assume that Focus Phrase is missing in this type of relative clause. We will try to explore the mechanism of the case alternation phenomenon, with the refinement of Saito’s (2004) dichotomy of T (declarative T and adnominal T).