Acquisition of the Mandarin ba-Construction by Cantonese Learners

Optionality, defined as the coexistence of two or more variants of a given construction, has been investigated in second language studies. Following the notion of optionality, this study defines the Mandarin ba-construction and its corresponding non-ba-forms as optional variants to examine Cantonese...

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Main Author: Yang Yike
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Learned Press 2020-06-01
Series:Macrolinguistics
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Online Access:http://www.macrolinguistics.com/index.php?c=msg&id=857&