This short paper investigates a colloquial construction in Mandarin Chinese in which
a secondary predicate may be preceded by the enclitic ta (它 ta “it”) and the classifier 個 ge
“GE.” The paper argues that ge heads a dependent clause, where the enclitic is the subject
of the secondary predicate. Therefore, first, the classifier is not used as a counting unit in this
numeral classifier language; and second, in addition to PRO, another form of the subject
for a dependent clause is attested in secondary predicate construction in this language

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• A study note on the state-denoting 個 ge “GE” construction