In Chinese, a sentence can be embedded in a noun phrase to modify its head noun and such a process is called relativization. Relativization usually results in relative clauses or adjectival clauses.

汉语可以把一个句子内嵌在一个名词短语中作中心语的限定语，这种过程就是“关系化”，而关系化的产物就是关系小句或形容词性小句。

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