obj:periph
: preposed object
The default word order in Chinese is SVO, that is, the subject normally precedes and the object
follows the verb. Other word orders, like OSV, are communicatively marked (Tremblay, 2005).
We use the obj:periph
subtype of the obj relation for objects that precede their verb.
“You just recorded this song.”
References
- Tremblay, A. (2005). Word Order in Mandarin Chinese and Grammatical Relations. In: Proceedings of the 19th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation: 333–340.
obj:periph in other languages: [yue] [zh]