POSTPOSED RELATIVE CLAUSE UNMARKED  

詞後加修飾句法 INVERSIO in the form of a postposed modification.

釋名 : 人始生曰嬰兒 "A human who has just been born is called a baby" is a characteristic example. Note that what is said to be a baby is not the birth, or the fact of having just been born.

Hypernym
  • INVERSIOMETAPLASMUS in the form of inversion of expected word order.
    • METAPLASMUSRHETORICAL FIGURE consisting in the reshaping of an expression rather than the addition or omission of elements. 改詞法 Transformation of the form of words, e.g. Mavors for Mars".
      • RHETORICAL FIGURE形式詞格 RHETORICAL DEVICE which mainly consists in the distribution of expressions in a passage.
  • STYLISTIC SYNTACTIC FEATURESThis is a convenient place to assemble stylistically marked structural syntactic phenomena that are not linked to any particular expression and cannot therefore be registered elsewhere in the TLS system.
    • RHETORICAL STYLE體裁詞格 RHETORICAL DEVICE which is mainly concerned with matters of style of presentation rather than distribution of expressions or semantic structure.
This is not a rhetorical device, of course, but while we still have no place to record syntactic phenomena that do not attach to a given Chinese word, we have no other place to record this. Thus this is just a stop-gap category allowing us to assemble evidence on an important syntactic phenomenon.

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