can you explain to me why it is 君のいる町 (A town where you live) not 君がいる町? - Feed Post by jihan19
can you explain to me why it is 君のいる町 (A town where you live) not 君がいる町?
posted by jihan19
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I think it's like "The TOWN where you live" vs "The town where YOU live"
Either one of が or の can be used to mark the subject in an adnominal/relative clause.
—Rambling thoughts begin here. Can stop reading now...—
の is usually only used when the predicate of the adnominal clause is short (such as just a single verb/adjective).
が is used instead still if the subject of the adnominal clause contains modifiers, or its predicate has objects/complements, or if the adnominal clause is modifying a dummy noun (like the nominaliser の). But this alone doesn't in any way mean が could not also have been used to mark the subject of your adnominal clause (it having a simple simple subject and there being no modifiers or objects).
I think の might contain a more possessive aspect to it. In your example, it is the 町 belonging to 君 (not in the sense of sole ownership, but it's where you live so it's "your town"—like the language you speak is "your language" but doesn't solely belong to you either). But maybe this isn't enough to explain why の rather than が was chosen (if I'm even in anyway correct about all of that).
I wonder if maybe の is just used more often than が for short adnominal clauses specifically when used in the title of something (anime/manga [such as in your case], TV shows, films, books,...). Off the top of my head, the only other example of this I can think of immediately is the short drama series "日本人の知らない日本語".
(I was going to delete this post after I realised I had rambled on typing straight off the top of my head. No idea whether Before I started typing, I only intended to write pretty much just the first line of this post... I haven't even attempted to reword it into something more understandable, but, bleh, just going to click post instead of deleting...) :P
well, thank you :D
