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Ting, Jen

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“…As proposed by Ting (1998) and Huang (1999), the long passive involves A'-movement, while the short passive involves A-movement. According to Huang (1999) and Ting (1998), the structure of long BEI passive is shown in (14). The Operator undergoes A'movement and adjoin to the lower IP.…”

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A Preliminary Investigation of the Adversity Reading in Archaic WEI Passives

Hamed¹

2012

Journal of Social Sciences

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Problem statement: It is well-known that modern Chinese imposes such a requirement on the subject in the BEI passive, but in fact it does not hold tightly in Modern Chinese. Only 50-75% of passives have the adversity reading on the subject. Approach: One approach to explain this phenomenon is to adopt the view of grammaticalization and trace the semantic change of the morpheme BEI. However, the majority of the passive construction in archaic Chinese is not the BEI passive, but the WEI construction. The Adversity reading in the WEI construction in archaic Chinese is examined as a pilot study in this study. Results: Our research result shows that in the book of Shi Ji, among 50 tokens, 78% of the WEI passive has the adversity reading. Conclusion: This thus indicates that our impression about the adversity reading imposed on passives is not an absolute requirement, no matter in modern or archaic Chinese. On the other hand, the investigation of the WEIâ¦SUO construction indicates that there is a decline of the adversity reading. We therefore conclude that a follow-up study should be carried out to complete the whole picture of the investigation of the adversity reading in Chinese passives.

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“…In addition to the categorization by meaning, we also categorize the fifty WEI sentences by their syntactic formats. The most well-known syntactic categorization is to divide passives into long and short passives (Ting, 1998;Huang, 1999). The Agent emerges in the long passive, while it is absent in the short passive.…”

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A Preliminary Investigation of the Adversity Reading in Archaic WEI Passives

Hamed¹

2012

Journal of Social Sciences

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“…First, these two types of sentences differ with respect to whether the post-you/bei NP can be omitted. As is well known (see Ting 1998 andHuang 1999, among others), bei passives have two subtypes: long and short, as in (8a) and (8b), respectively. take.away-pfv Intended: 'Regarding the thief, someone was assigned to take him/her away.…”

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“…These two approaches, as reviewed in and Huang et al (2009), have limits of their own. A third hybrid approach was later proposed by Chiu (1995), Ting (19951998), Feng (1997, Cheng et al (1999), and. This hybrid approach derives long passives of bei based on operator movement and predication, on a par with the derivation of English tough constructions (Chomsky 1981).…”

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On the syntax of assigning you constructions in Mandarin Chinese

Huang

2023

LALI

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Assigning you constructions in Mandarin Chinese are special in that they often read like passives. With this in mind, the goal of this paper is twofold. First, I aim to compare assigning you constructions with typical passive constructions of bei in Mandarin Chinese. Second, I attempt to seek an approach that may derive assigning you constructions desirably. The research results are as follows. I have found that assigning you constructions and bei passives differ both semantically and syntactically. I argue, contrary to Xiong (2010), that you is not a passive morpheme since, unlike Mandarin bei passives or English be passives, assigning you constructions do not always exhibit the initial NP as a Patient or Theme. I also argue against the traditional treatment of you as a preposition and instead propose that you is a three-place predicate taking an IP complement. I show that the bi-clausal structure deriving from the verb analysis receives empirical support from binding phenomena.

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Soh¹

2014

The Handbook of Chinese Linguistics

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Cited by 44 publications

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A Preliminary Investigation of the Adversity Reading in Archaic WEI Passives

A Preliminary Investigation of the Adversity Reading in Archaic WEI Passives

On the syntax of assigning you constructions in Mandarin Chinese

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