The Mandarin Chinese Ba-construction: Diachronic, Synchronic and Constructional Perspectives KU Leuven
The proposed project provides a synchronic and diachronic study of the ba-construction in Mandarin Chinese. In essence, it is an SOV construction in which the marker ba precedes the object, which in turn is followed by the verb expressing the action affecting the object. Its structure can be represented as “subject + ba + object + verb (+ X)”. The construction is traditionally said to convey the notion of ‘disposal’, whereby ba functions as a ...