In Archaic Chinese,when the demonstrative “zhi”(之)is not only used as the object of the main verb,but also anticipates the information expressed in the following clause,this kind of complex sentence can be regarded as the cataphoric hypotaxis.Although the demonstrative zhi in the cataphoric hypotaxis can potentially develop into a complementizer mainly introducing object comple-ments,the process of its grammaticalization has not finished completely because the cataphoric demonstrative zhi has not spread extensively to the dynamic propositional sentences or eventive sen-tences,which in turn has greatly prevented the process of its grammaticalization and retained its sali-ent properties as a demonstrative.%在上古汉语中，当指示词“之”既充当主句中动词的宾语，同时又预示后面的从句所要表达的信息时，这种句子便是预指性主从句，预指性主从句是上古汉语主从句的一种重要类型。虽然预指性主从句中的“之”字具备了向引导宾语从句的标补词的方向发展的句法条件，但由于预指代词“之”字没有真正扩展到动态的命题句或事件句中，这极大地制约了它的虚化进程，导致它一直保留着较为明显的指代性，因而它向标补词演变的历史进程实际上并未完成。
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