Mandarin relative clauses

Mandarin relative clauses precede their head and end in the particle de. The relativized position may be left empty, which relativizes subjects and direct objects, or filled by a personal pronoun, which relativizes everything from direct objects down to objects of comparison; the two overlap at direct objects, where retention is optional. Mandarin is the sample's only prenominal-clause language whose pronoun-retention strategy reaches the bottom of the hierarchy. The data are [KC77]'s, whose Table 1 lists the language as Chinese (spoken Pekingese).

References

• [KC77]
• [KC79]

def Mandarin.relDe : Relativizer

The particle de closes a prenominal clause whose relativized position is left empty at the subject, left empty or filled by a personal pronoun at the direct object, and filled by a personal pronoun from the indirect object down.

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def Mandarin.relativizers : List Relativizer

The Mandarin relativizers.

Equations

• Mandarin.relativizers = [Mandarin.relDe]