出版社：Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto
摘要：This paper revisits the Relevancy Condition on the Internally Headed Relative Clause (IHRC) construction in Korean and proposes a more valid rendition thereof. Specifically, it shows that, for a sentence instantiating the IHRC construction to be interpretable, the content of the embedded clause must bear a temporal intersection or an inferential relation to the content of the embedding clause. It will be further shown that, depending on their semantic relation to the embedding clause’s content, IHRCs can be classified into two types, namely, the (i) temporal and (ii) inferential types, and the interpretive behavior of these two types of IHRCs parallels that of free adjuncts in English. This parallel will be taken to suggest that the Relevancy Condition is a reflex of a more general principle that governs the interpretation of complex clause structures that lack an overt connective.
