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The Restrictions on the Genitive Relative Clauses Triggered by Relational Nouns

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Chinese Lexical Semantics (CLSW 2019)

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Genitives can be relativized in Mandarin Chinese. This article focuses on the genitive relative clauses triggered by relational nouns. The constructions are restricted to some conditions grammatically and semantically. First, the relational nouns in the relative clauses must serve as subjects. And the predicates of the relative clauses are usually intransitive verbs. In addition, the kinship terms cannot construct the qualified genitive relative clauses. Finally, the research explains these restrictions in terms of the theory of prominence condition.

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I am grateful to the anonymous reviewers of CLSW 2019 for helpful suggestions and comments. This research was supported by the Ministry of Education (MOE) Humanities and Social Sciences Fund of China under grant No. 18YJC740058 (Metadiscourse Function of Mandarin Emphatic Markers) to Lu Ying. All errors remain my own.

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    Xin Kou

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Kou, X. (2020). The Restrictions on the Genitive Relative Clauses Triggered by Relational Nouns. In: Hong, JF., Zhang, Y., Liu, P. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11831. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38189-9_75

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