The sentence with a ba-prepositional phrase
“把”字句
Dr Youxuan Wang
SLAS, University of Portsmouth
2012-10-08
Abstract: main propositions
1.
When the word ba把
is used as a
preposition, the prepositional phrase thus generated is called a ba-prepositional
phrase.
2.
Sentences that employ ba-prepositional
phrases normally contain transitive verbs which are followed by: (a) complement
of result, (b) complements of direction, or (c) complement of location).
3.
When a ba-prepositional phrase is used,
the direct object of the verb is moved to the prepositional phrase.
4.
The preposition ba identifies the
recipient of an action: the noun in the ba-prepositional phrase is the
logical object of the predicative verb.
5.
The prepositional phrase functions as an
adverbial, and as such it is positioned before the verb. (In modern Chinese,
adverbials always occur before the verbs that they modify.)
6.
The use of ba-prepositions allows the
complement to follow immediately the predicative verb. (A complement is not an
adverbial, and strictly speaking, it does not modify the meaning of the verb.
For this reason, it does not occur before the verb.)
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