Ba-constructions in Mandarin Chinese

Zhang Bojiang is a researcher at the Institute of Linguistics. He is currently the director of the Institute of Linguistics, director of the Academic Committee of the Institute, and dean of the College of Arts of the University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, President of the Chinese Language Society, Expert Advisory Committee on Standardization of Legislative Terms of the Legislative Affairs Committee of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, Member of the Eighth Discipline Evaluation Group of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council, Deputy Director of the Editorial Committee of Compulsory Education Chinese Textbooks. He has published more than 100 papers in domestic and foreign journals.

• The subject and object of the "ba" sentence.- The verb of the "ba" sentence.- The syntactic transformation of the "ba" sentence.- The generation method of the "ba" sentence.- Is the "ba" sentence a syntactic process.- The volition of the subject.- The definiteness of the object.- Definiteness of the object.- Result of action.- Dispositional meaning of sentence pattern.- Pragmatic characteristics of ba sentences.