The Syntax of Japanese TACs and a Demonstrative Complementizer in Japanese

要旨

This paper discusses differences of the internal syntax of temporal adverbial clauses in Japanese. Japanese temporal adverbial clauses have three forms for one subordinator and the three kinds show different behaviors. I claim that the differences are explained by selectional properties and categorial status of functional heads included in the temporal clauses. Moreover, I propose that Japanese has a complementizer originated from a demonstrative, which is analogous to the English complementizer that and that the Japanese complementizer plays an important role in temporal adverbial clauses.

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