case
: case marking
The case relation for Mandarin Chinese is applied to various particles that mark non-clausal dependents, including the genitive 嘅 ge3 (1); prepositions (2, 3), including a handful of “coverbs” (4); and the valence marker 將 zoeng1 (5) (see obl:patient); the comparative 比 bei2 (6); and the passive 被 bei6 when followed by an agent (7) (used only in formal registers).
Note that 的 de has other grammaticalized functions that require the mark:rel relation instead.
Postpositions, also known as “localizers”, are labeled with case:loc instead.
case in other languages: [bg] [bm] [cop] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [et] [fi] [fr] [ga] [gsw] [gub] [hy] [it] [ja] [ka] [kk] [ky] [no] [pcm] [pt] [qpm] [ro] [ru] [sl] [ssp] [sv] [swl] [tr] [u] [urj] [xcl] [yue] [zh]