This paper briefly introduces related research on language typology and introduces the related theory of linguistic typology to illustrate the implicational universal across languages. Next, after clarifying the types of Chinese inflections from the ephemeral and cognitive perspectives, the paper analyzes the features of Chinese that distinguish it from other SVO languages. Finally, starting from Chinese legal texts, this paper attempts to expound the correlation between the position of attributive in legal texts and its length in the small corpus of Criminal Law and concludes that the average length of postpositive attributives is significantly longer than that of prepositive attributives. Meanwhile, this paper emphasizes the importance and necessity of interdisciplinary, corpus empirical methods for research.

Lili Yan. A Study on the Correlation of Attributive Position and Length in Legal Texts: Taking the Amendment to Criminal Law (XI) as an Example. International Journal of Frontiers in Sociology (2023), Vol. 5, Issue 15: 120-128. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJFS.2023.051521.

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