Noun-modifying clause constructions in Sino-Tibetan languages

• Main Author: LaPolla, Randy J.
• Other Authors: Matsumoto, Yoshiko
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: John Benjamins 2021
• Subjects: Humanities::Linguistics; Sino-Tibetan; Linguistic Tyopology
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/145892
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

After a short background introduction on Sino-Tibetan noun modifying clause constructions generally, this paper demonstrates, using naturally occurring data, that the Mandarin pre-head noun-modifying clausal construction is grammatically unlike a relative clause construction, as normally conceived,...