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Peer reviewedBender, Emily – Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 2000
Presents the case for treating the "ba" construction in Mandarin Chinese as a verb, considering both language-internal arguments and arguments from universal properties of parts of speech. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Universals, Linguistic Theory, Mandarin Chinese
