Universal #678

Legacy number: 678

 Number  675
 Original  It very rarely happens that prenominal Relative Clauses regularly retain personal pronoun in the NPrel position.
 Standardized  IF relative clauses are prenominal, THEN they very rarely retain a personal pronoun in the position of the relativized NP.
 Keywords  relative clause, order, personal pronoun
 Domain  syntax
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  languages in Keenan 1985b
 Source  Keenan 1985b: 148

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Discussion
Counterexamples
Mandarin; Korean (Korean has prenominal RelCs and occasionally uses personal pronoun NPrel s when NPrel is a possessor).