Causatives and Accomplishments

‘Causatives and accomplishments: The case of Chinese ba’ offers an original analysis of the Chinese ba-construction, One of the basic ideas is that all ba-sentences are causative sentences: the same structure underlies both causative and canonical ba-sentences. lt is furthermore argued that this structure also underlies the non-ba-counterparts of the different types of ba-sente...

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Rint Sybesma is a professor of Chinese Linguistics at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies (LIAS) and the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL). Rint Sybesma was educated in Leiden, the Netherlands (Universiteit Leiden), and Shenyang, China (Liaoning Daxue). He holds MAs in Linguistics and Sinology (1987; Leiden) and a Ph.D. in Linguistics (1992; Leiden). ...

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