Controversy Over the Relative Pronoun ‘That’ And the Complementizer ‘That’

January 31, 2023  |  Vol.9, No.1  |  PP. 315-325  | PDF

AUTHORS:

Yoon Jin Lee, Dept. of Liberal Education, Kongju Univ., Korea

Mun Koo Kang, Dept. of English, Kongju National Univ., Korea

KEYWORDS:

Relative Clause, Relative Pronoun, Conjunction, Pronoun, Syntactic

Abstract

That in a relative clause is grammatically regarded as a relative pronoun. Compared with wh-relatives, it has been acknowledged that the relative clause does not have all the roles of relative pronouns through previous research. Since relative pronouns act as conjunctions and pronouns, they play a syntactic role as a noun, but they do not apply in some parts. So, for a long time, transformational grammarians have been insisting that that is not a relative pronoun. In this paper, from a neutral standpoint, in is revealed that the relative clause that has the characteristics of a pronoun, but cannot be considered a complete pronoun.

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Citations:

APA:
Lee, Y. J., Kang, M. K. (2023). Controversy Over the Relative Pronoun ‘That’ And the Complementizer ‘That’. Asia-pacific Journal of Convergent Research Interchange (APJCRI), ISSN: 2508-9080 (Print); 2671-5325 (Online), KCTRS, 9(1), 315-325. doi: 10.47116/apjcri.2023.01.26

MLA:
Lee, Yoon Jin, et al. “Controversy Over the Relative Pronoun ‘That’ And the Complementizer ‘That’.” Asia-pacific Journal of Convergent Research Interchange, ISSN: 2508-9080 (Print); 2671-5325 (Online), KCTRS, vol. 9, no. 1, 2023, pp. 315-325. APJCRI, http://fucos.or.kr/journal/APJCRI/Articles/v9n1/26.html.

IEEE:
[1] Y. J. Lee, M. K. Kang, “Controversy Over the Relative Pronoun ‘That’ And the Complementizer ‘That’.” Asia-pacific Journal of Convergent Research Interchange (APJCRI), ISSN: 2508-9080 (Print); 2671-5325 (Online), KCTRS, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 315-325, January 2023.