The Syntax of the Ba-Constructions

The Ba-construction has been widely discussed in the literature; however, few satisfactory studies have been carried out on the Ba-construction from a syntactic approach. In this paper 1 will argue for the fact that the Ba predicate describes a bounded or telic event and the DP after Ba is encoded e...

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Main Author: Yan, Ling
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Kansas, Department of Linguistics 2004-01-01
Series:Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1808/1245