Timeline for Can ごとに be replaced by それぞれ in this question?
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| Jun 27, 2012 at 4:24 | comment | added | user458 |
@RodrigoPará Good point. One reason is that それぞれ has to modify "the person who is met" which is inside the relative clause and is invisible. In the genitive position that you had, it cannot modify into the relative clause; using それぞれ with the genitive の makes the それぞれ an independent noun, meaning "each person/thing". Another reason is because in Japanese relative clause, the nominative case of the subject can be replaced with the genitive case, and so your original expression can me miss-parsed as [それぞれの会う]人 "the person that each person meets" rather than the intended それぞれの[会う人].
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| Jun 27, 2012 at 4:04 | comment | added | Rodrigo Pará | sorry that just got me confused. why for example the sentence ハウルの動く城 (Howl's moving castle) is correct? the pattern seems similar... | |
| Jun 26, 2012 at 2:16 | comment | added | user458 | @Flaw It is unnatural to modify from outside of a relative clause. | |
| Jun 26, 2012 at 2:14 | comment | added | user458 | @Rodrigo That is right. が makes it the subject. 家 is used metaphorically like a person. | |
| Jun 26, 2012 at 2:00 | comment | added | Flaw♦ | Why is それぞれの家 fine but それぞれの合う人 not? | |
| Jun 26, 2012 at 1:58 | comment | added | Rodrigo Pará | At first I didn't get why you changed the particle for が, but after further inspection I think i get it: Is it because with に, it sounds like someone who is a outsider is walking and putting the trees at each house, and with が, it sounds like each family is responsible for putting the tree on your own house? | |
| Jun 26, 2012 at 1:23 | history | answered | user458 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |