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Universal 675:

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

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    1. May 2020

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