NDLI: On Chinese appositive relative clauses

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Author	Del Gobbo, Francesca
Copyright Year	2010
Abstract	There is currently no consensus in the literature with the respect to the semantic status of relative clauses in Mandarin Chinese. Some authors (Zhang 2001; Del Gobbo 2003, 2004, 2005) claim that relative clauses in Mandarin Chinese can only be interpreted as restrictives; others (see Lin 2003) instead maintain that relative clauses in this language can be both restrictive and appositive. In this paper, I claim that Chinese relative clauses modifying proper names and pronouns can indeed be appositive, but they are still crucially different from appositive relative clauses in English. Following Cinque’s (2006a, 2008a) distinction between “integrated appositive relative clauses” and “non-integrated” ones, I claim that Chinese appositive relatives belong to the class of the “integrated” ones. I furthermore propose that the typological difference between the “integrated” appositives and the “non-integrated” ones is due to the absence versus presence of the relative pronoun. Adopting Cinque’s (2006a, 2008a) theory of relativization, I propose a structure for Chinese relative clauses whereby c-command of the internal head of the relative is disallowed. This explains why the internal head of the Chinese relative clause can never be generated as a relative pronoun and, more generally, why overt relative pronouns are unavailable in prenominal relative clauses cross-linguistically. Last, the theory here outlined makes the strong empirical prediction that no prenominal relative clause can be appositive in the canonical sense.
Starting Page	385
Ending Page	417
Page Count	33
File Format	PDF
ISSN	09258558
Journal	Journal of East Asian Linguistics
Volume Number	19
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	15728560
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2010-12-28
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Restrictive relative clauses Appositive relative clauses Prenominal relative clauses Mandarin Chinese Languages and Literature Theoretical Languages Comparative Linguistics Chinese Japanese
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Linguistics and Language History and Philosophy of Science

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