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
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Sciendo 2018
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/be3f7559d0b3400c924ca2e77a4a50e4
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