Object Preposing in Mandarin Chinese: Focus on ba Construction and bei Construction

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10.2991/mmetss-18.2018.16How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Object preposing, ba Construction, bei construction.

Abstract

This article explores ba construction and bei construction in realizing object preposing in Mandarin Chinese. The change of sentence structures mirrors the movement of objects, especially for object preposing and topicalization. In this case, inserting helping words as ba and bei highlights this vibration. I propose that these two structures bear similarities in converting sentence structures, while they also reflect differences in acquiring sentence final marker as –le. I further investigate ba construction and bei construction within wh-topicalization to show that only bei construction is acceptable for this structure.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Wenjing He
PY  - 2018/11
DA  - 2018/11
TI  - Object Preposing in Mandarin Chinese: Focus on ba Construction and bei Construction
BT  - Proceedings of the 2018 3rd International Conference on Modern Management, Education Technology, and Social Science (MMETSS 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 70
EP  - 75
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/mmetss-18.2018.16
DO  - 10.2991/mmetss-18.2018.16
ID  - He2018/11
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