Contemporary Foreign Languages Studies ›› 2013, Vol. 13 ›› Issue (04): 12-15.

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Transitivity Analysis of the Ba-Structure in Modern Chinese: A Cardiff Grammar Perspective

ZHANG Jingyuan, WANG Shen   

  • Online:2013-04-15 Published:2020-07-25

Abstract: Ba-structure is a common pattern in Chinese grammar. Although many domestic grammarians have done a lot of researh and made achievements on this language pattern, there are still many deficiencies at theoretical level. By introducing the transitivity system of the Cardiff grammar, this paper categorizes the ba-construction into four process types: action process, mental process, relational process and influential process, and then elaborates the semantic function of the ba-structure.

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