Syntactic function npostadN
particle modifying a preceding N
One should not jump to the conclusion that these are suffixes. Topic markers like 者 are surely not suffixes, but they may seem to fall into this category. Etymologically, 者 is the head of the noun phrase after which it occurs. Should we maintain this in the cases where 者 functions as a topic marker? This needs discussion. Does a post-nominal particle which marks the noun as s topic thereby "modify" that noun. I think so!
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