15.1. 2. Major features (a)'Discourse-old'direct object (b) Semantic role of the bă NP
(c)'Completiveness' restriction on the predicate 15.1. 3. Predicate types in the Chinese bă …

This paper revisits the categorial status of the Mandarin passive marker bei and the
derivational relationship between long and short bei passives. In regard to its categorial …

This dissertation attempts to discuss various types and essential properties of the BA-
constructions, resultative verb compounds and directional verb compounds in Chinese, to …

How is the (in)-dependence (or finiteness) of a clause identified in a language that has no
tense, case, or agreement morphology, such as Chinese? This paper investigates the …

The BA construction (Lü 1948) in Standard Modern Chinese, also known as the disposal
construction (Wang 1943) in China, is perhaps the most well-known construction in Chinese …

A bstract The paper proposes a novel classification and analysis of the V-DE construction in
Mandarin Chinese. On this proposal, the V-DE construction is divided into two types …

Our work on adverbial clauses in Mandarin Chinese in this issue is divided into three parts—
Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3, each with its own focus and subtitle. The goals of this series of …

In this paper I firstly argue that secondary predicates are complement of v, and v is overtly
realized by Merge or Move in secondary predication in Chinese. The former option derives …

Complex predicates in Mandarin Chinese: Three types of Bu-Yu structures Complex predicates in
Mandarin Chinese: Three types of Bu-Yu structures Abstract In this dissertation, I survey three …

This paper juxtaposes two well-known competing hypotheses about the structure of
resultative and descriptive sentences in Chinese. According to the P [rimary] P [redication] …