The Ba-constructions in Mandarin Chinese

This book systematically reviews various syntactic and semantic issues in the study of Chinese "Ba" sentences. The book is divided into two parts: the first section summarizes the composition and syntactic structure of "Ba" sentences; the second part to brings together the semantic and pragmatic issues of "Ba" sentences. This scholarly volume discusses the characteristics of each component of "Ba" sentences, the restrictive relationship between components, the syntactic transformation of "Ba" sentences, and the generation method of "Ba" sentences. This book also empathizes the volition of the subject, the definiteness of the object, the result of the action, the dispositional meaning of the sentence pattern, and the pragmatic characteristics of "Ba" sentences. It will be served as a valuable resource for scholars in the field of Mandarin Chinese.