On Some Characteristics of "Noun+When -clause" the Post-War Period of 1945s-1950

Abstract

Yamanouchi(1989) claims that when-clause can modify nouns in front of them irrespective of the mornings of the nouns a claim which he ascribes to his supposition that they have three functions, just like the infinitive with to nominal, adjectival, and adverbial. He also maintains that the category "relative adverb" should be abolished. In the paper we argue that his proposals are not totally acceptable, for the "noun+when-clause" constructions can only be grammatical on certain conditions, and the category "relative adverb" cannot be done without.