A Cartographic Analysis of the Syntactic Structure of Mandarin Ba
This paper analyzes the syntactic properties of the “ba-construction” or “disposal form” in Mandarin Chinese under new theoretical frameworks. By introducing the event-decomposition method proposed by Ramchand (2008), it argues that the ba-construction conveys the causativity and the resultativity o...
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Main Author: | Sun Yangyu |
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Format: | article |
Language: | EN |
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2018
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Online Access: | https://doaj.org/article/be3f7559d0b3400c924ca2e77a4a50e4 |
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