Gap in "Gapless" Relative Clauses in Korean and Other Asian Languages
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This paper attempts to argue that the so-called gapless relative clause (GRC) in Korean (Chinese and Japanese as well) can best be dealt with by the Generative Lexicon Theory (GLT) put forward in Pustejovsky (1995). There arises a superficial conflict in the construction: the GRC, with no apparent gap, contains a relative verb that does not directly relate to the head noun in terms of causeeffect relation required between the GRC and the following head noun. The paper shows that this incomplete realization of the causeeffect relation can be fully recovered from the lexical-semantic(pragmatic) information specified under the GL framework. Thus, the qualia structure of GLT can successfully fill the meaning of the best hidden relative verb in the GRC for the correct interpretation
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