The Old Chinese Determiner zhe

This paper proposes a unified analysis of three uses of the functional morpheme zhe in late archaic Chinese (5th-3rd Centuries BC). One function of zhe was to form a relative clause. (1a) shows a relative clause formed on the subject of a verbal predicate. In (1b), the relative head is the subject of an adjectival predicate. Zhe can only relativize on subject position. A differen