TRANSITIVITY AND THE BA CONSTRUCTION
In this paper, I discuss the legitimacy of positing a Transitivity Projection (= TrP cf. Bowers 1993, 1997, 2001 and 2002) in the BA construction in Mandarin Chinese. BA has been proposed to be a semantically-bleached verb, inserted in the v position (Huang 1997 and Lin 2001). Several pieces of evid...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Crane Publishing Co
2010-06-01
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| Series: | Taiwan Journal of Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | http://tjl.nccu.edu.tw/volume8-1/8.1-4Kuo.pdf |