[Ads-l] Personal pronouns modified with relative clauses

[Geoffrey Nathan]

My memory is that Japanese pronouns have a few
additional characteristics that make them non-
prototypical. They can be used in place of proper names:
anata ‘you’ can be used to call someone, for example.

Also, there’s the Rodin sculpture:
https://tinyurl.com/5fympy4f

Geoff


Geoffrey S. Nathan
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My recollection is that one of the reasons some people doubt that =
Japanese =E2=80=9Cpronouns=E2=80=9D are actually pronouns is that they =
can take relative clauses, and that in languages like English, they =
cannot. To invent an example in both languages:

=E3=82=B9=E3=83=BC=E3=83=91=E3=81=AB=E3=81=84=E3=81=9F=E5=83=95=E3=82=92=E8=
=A6=8B=E3=81=9F=E3=80=82(suupa-ni ita boku-wo mita)
* (somebody) saw me who was in the grocery store.

Today I saw an article in which former President Donald Trump violates =
this rule. Here is that article and another quote. Is this idiolect or =
dialect?

=
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-asks-can-doj-charge-la=
wyers-meet-feds-rcna87770
Dareh Gregorian
5 Jun 2023
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"How can DOJ possibly charge me, who did nothing wrong, when no other =
president's were charged," Trump wrote on Truth Social in an all-caps =
post.
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https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/26/politics/donald-trump-press-conference-anal=
ysis/index.html
Chris Cillizza
26 Sep 2018
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=E2=80=9CI=E2=80=99ve been accused =E2=80=A6 by four or five women, who =
got paid a lot of money to make up stories about me who made a lot of =
money,=E2=80=9D Trump said.=20
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Benjamin Barrett (he/his/him)
Formerly of Seattle, WA

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