caa a22 4500 475756703 CHVBK 20180406123539.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1008348224800 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1008348224800 Bender Emily Department of Linguistics, Stanford University, 94305-2150, Stanford, CA, U.S.A. aut The Syntax of Mandarin Bă: Reconsidering the Verbal Analysis [Elektronische Daten] [Emily Bender] The bă construction is central to the study of Mandarin grammar. It has received many attempts at analysis and comes up frequently as a syntactic test in discussions of other phenomena. Yet, not even its part of speech has ever been convincingly established. This paper presents the case for treating bă as a verb, considering both language-internal arguments and arguments from universal properties of parts of speech. These arguments are intended to have cross-theoretic validity.On the basis of the conclusion that bă is a verb, an analysis is developed within the framework of Lexical Functional Grammar. On this analysis, bă selects for a subject, an object, and a complement clause, and further stipulates that its object controls the TOPIC function of its complement clause.This analysis is shown to account for both the core data and the data which is problematic for other analyses. Finally, the analysis is confirmed by evidence from telicity effects in the bă construction, universal properties of verbs and prepositions, and its compatibility with the known historical development of the construction. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000 Journal of East Asian Linguistics Kluwer Academic Publishers 9/2(2000-04-01), 105-145 0925-8558 9:2<105 2000 9 10831 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008348224800 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008348224800 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Bender Emily Department of Linguistics, Stanford University, 94305-2150, Stanford, CA, U.S.A aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of East Asian Linguistics Kluwer Academic Publishers 9/2(2000-04-01), 105-145 0925-8558 9:2<105 2000 9 10831 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer