A comparative study in Chinese grammars: The ba-construction
汉语语法比较研究：把字结构
Hung-nin Samuel Cheung 张洪年

Abstract 摘要
The BA-construction has long attracted the attention of many Chinese grammarians whose investigations and analyses have continued to improve our understanding of the nature of the construction. This paper is a review of several different treatments proposed by syntacticians and semanticists during the past decade. Their formulations and discoveries are presented together with their shortcomings. New suggestions are also made in the course of the discussion.