A Comparative Study of Noun Phrases in East Asian Languages

本文认为，汉语使用附加名词短语和Kaynean（1994）的抬首语构成关系分句。这一建议是基于迄今为止尚未观察到的现象，即汉语关系从句可以触发NP省略时，他们之前的一个数量词（NQ），但他们不能当他们之后的NQ，这是至少有一些（普通话）汉语的母语。与Takahashi（2011）的观点相反，本研究还发现日语中不允许使用凯恩式抬头，而Takahashi（2011）认为日语中允许使用凯恩式抬头。该研究得出结论，名词结构在中心语词尾语言中并不统一，从而支持Saito，Lin和Murasugi（2008）。

This study argues that Chinese makes use of adjunction to NP, as well as Kaynean (1994) head-raising, in order to form relative clauses. This proposal is based on the hitherto unobserved phenomena that Chinese relative clauses can trigger NP-ellipsis when they precede a numeral quantifier (NQ), but they cannot when they follow an NQ, which is the case for at least some native speakers of (Mandarin) Chinese. By way of contrast, the study also shows that Kaynean head-raising is not allowed in Japanese, contrary to Takahashi (2011), who claims that Japanese permits Kaynean head-raising in relative clause formation. The study concludes that nominal architecture is not uniform across head-final languages, thereby supporting Saito, Lin, and Murasugi (2008).