The Existence of Empty Relative Operators in Japanese

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It has widely been claimed in the literature, especially in the field of Japanese linguistics, that Japanese shares with other major languages in that it possesses relative constructions, but unlike English and many other languages, it lacks relative pronouns. However, I will claim in this work that Japanese also has a relative pronoun, the one we also find in English, i.e., an empty non-lexical operator.

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