In:Patient-Subject Constructions in Mandarin Chinese: Syntax, semantics, discourse
Xiaoling He
[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse 12] 2019
► pp. 11–32
Chapter 2Previous studies of the patient-subject construction
Published online: 27 June 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/scld.12.c2
https://doi.org/10.1075/scld.12.c2
Article outline
- 2.1The PSC is an age-old construction in Chinese
- 2.2General properties of the PSC
- 2.2.1High text frequency
- 2.2.2Syntactic properties
- 2.3Previous studies of the PSC
- 2.3.1Phonetic marking of the grammatical distinction
- 2.3.2Lexical approaches
- 2.3.2.1The “Inward-outward conversion” hypothesis
- 2.3.2.2“Middle verbs”
- 2.3.3Syntactic approaches
- 2.3.3.1Object-preposing
- 2.3.3.2Passive sentences
- Summary
- 2.3.3.3Topicalization structure
- 2.3.3.4Stative sentences
- 2.3.3.5Middle constructions
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