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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.
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Chinese Ergative-like Construction
sentences like “Wangmian Si-le Fuqin"
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
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Studies on ergativity have provided valuable insights into understanding Chinese, but as research deepens, scholars have discovered areas where ergative theory is difficult to apply to Chinese. This book focuses on Chinese ergative-like sentences, exploring their distinctions from typical ergative structures and evaluating whether they truly fit the ergative classification. The authors focus on the following questions: 1) Why and how has the Wangmian sentence, a simple six-character sentence in Chinese, roughly equivalent to “Wangmian’s father died” in English, sparked long-lasting, intense discussions in Chinese linguistics since the 1950s? 2) Is there a derivational relationship between the Wangmian sentence and other similar sentence structures? 3) How is the concept of ergativity applied to Chinese langauge, esp. in the generation of the Wangmian sentence, and what is its effect? 4) Are “die”, considered a Chinese ergative verb like “open” in English, and unergative verbs like “laugh” and “cry” truly distinct categories? 5) What valuable insights can we gain from examining the Wangmian sentence from a cognitive perspective? 6) How can we better understand the complexities between the diachronic evolution and synchronic analysis of the Wangmian sentence? Finally, the author compare the explanatory power of constructions and movements—two representative methods of synthetic and analytic approaches—discussing which better reveals the essence of Chinese grammar.