Can someone explain the form: xに関するどんな


I apologize in advance for the poor title. I'm really not sure how to phrase
my question. I often see in Japanese sentences structures like the following:

エホバに関するどんな事実を強調しましたか。

In the above, エホバに関する (let's call it 'A') seems to stand on it's own as some
clause that, to my eye, doesn't seem clearly attached to the remainder of the
sentence. Then we have どんな事実を強調しましたか ('B') that makes sense on it's own (e.g.
'B' meaning "What facts were highlighted?")

Is, エホバに関する, modifying どんな in this case?

In many Japanese sentences, I often see a clause ending in plain form that
just sits before (or after) the rest of the sentence. But it's not joined to
the remainder of the sentence with any particle like の, こと, ため, によって, etc. So
it's simply "A + B" with no particle to join them and it doesn't always look
like an adjectival clause.

Am I just confused? Is the above just an adjectival clause for どんな or is this
a common structure I'm just not aware of?

(P.S. Please let me know if I need to provide more examples.)




In this case, `エホバに関する` is a relative clause, so it modifies the following
noun phrase. Since `どんな` is not by itself a noun, we can conclude that it's
part of a larger noun phrase. In this case, the only possible such noun phrase
is `どんな事実`.

Note that unlike English, Japanese doesn't have a distinct class of words
called _determiners_ which terminate the expansion of a noun phrase. That is,
in English you cannot say phrases like * _the red this house_ , because the
determiner _this_ cannot be further modified by the string _the red_. In
Japanese, however, you can place modifiers before words like `どんな` or `あの`
without a problem.




In this case, `エホバに関する` is a relative clause, so it modifies the following
noun phrase. Since `どんな` is not by itself a noun, we can conclude that it's
part of a larger noun phrase. In this case, the only possible such noun phrase
is `どんな事実`.

Note that unlike English, Japanese doesn't have a distinct class of words
called _determiners_ which terminate the expansion of a noun phrase. That is,
in English you cannot say phrases like * _the red this house_ , because the
determiner _this_ cannot be further modified by the string _the red_. In
Japanese, however, you can place modifiers before words like `どんな` or `あの`
without a problem.

