The position of the de structure is discussed within the context of attributiveAttributive positions, and it is related to the (non-) use of de and its semantics. WangPresence Yuanjie (王远杰, Wang 2008b) examinesAbsence the (non-) use of de focusing on the syntactic distributionDistribution of attributivesAttributive. Among the three kinds of attributivesAttributive (ordered as [identifying attributive][quantifying attributive][categorizing attributive]), strong identifying attributivesAttributive like zhe (这 ‘here’) and na (那 ‘there’) are exclusively placed in the identifying attributiveAttributive slot without de; they cannot occur in the categorizing attributiveAttributive slot. Similarly, strong categorizing attributivesAttributive like yuwen (语文 ‘philology’) can only appear in the categorizing attributiveAttributive slot and are prohibited in the identifying attributiveAttributive slot.