Indexical Features of Relative Clauses for Wade Languages
Wade languages are of VO order,whose NP structure is prepositional.According to Hawkins research on prepositional language,it is found VO language has 7 typological features,such as Pr&NDem&NNum&NA&NG&NRel,while its relative clause is always positioned on the right of the nuclear.According to analysis on the data from field investigation,it is found that relative clauses of Wade languages have universal features as follows:word order of the clause has universal feature of SVO→VOS;the relative clause of Wa universally is on the right of the head of NP,while De'ang and Bulang's can be on the right as well as on the left;the attributive clause is of no complementizer,of which its syntactic order determines the order of words and structural pattern.
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