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Publication details [#5817]

Kuroda, S.-Y. 1976. Headless relative clauses in modern Japanese and the relevancy condition. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 2 : 269–279.
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English
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K.'s main claim is that for Japanese 'headless' relative clauses to be acceptable, the 'relevancy condition' must be satisfied, i.e. it must be interpreted pragmatically in such a way as to be directly relevant to the pragmatic content of its matrix clause.