Relative clause in japanese


How do you form relative clauses that involves first person action? For
example : "There aren't people I can talk to". Basically my doubt is about all
those questions that require a particle like "to", "ni" and the like, when you
can't use V-te ageru/kureru/morau to explicitate who's doing what to
whom..Don't know if it's clear >.<




I think you might find the explanation of agency you are looking for in the
introduction to the Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar (which I have not got
to hand right now) but the other approach is to think of different ways of
conveying what you want to say eg

"There aren't people I can talk to".

(which even in English feels like a rather clumsy construction anyway(?))

= There is nobody I can talk to/with = There is nobody who can talk to/with me

= 僕と話せる人がいない

or perhaps even;

僕と話せる人は誰もいない




I think you might find the explanation of agency you are looking for in the
introduction to the Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar (which I have not got
to hand right now) but the other approach is to think of different ways of
conveying what you want to say eg

"There aren't people I can talk to".

(which even in English feels like a rather clumsy construction anyway(?))

= There is nobody I can talk to/with = There is nobody who can talk to/with me

= 僕と話せる人がいない

or perhaps even;

僕と話せる人は誰もいない

