What does 'disposal' mean? Features of the verb and noun in Chinese
‘处置’ 是什麽意思? 汉语动词与名词的特征
Y.C. Li 李英哲

Abstract 摘要
This study is concerned with problems related to the general properties of BA sentences or ‘disposal’ sentences. It attempts to clarify what is generally described as ‘disposing’ of certain objects by the action of certain verbs. It is found that the verbs in these sentences share at least these common features: [+Verb. +Transitive. +Action. +Anaphoric], while the object noun phrases have these common features: [+Noun. +Object. +Source. +Anaphoric]. It is also found that co-occurrence relationships between the features of the verb and the object noun must be considered in order to explain the presence of BA in the sentences. Both the object noun and the verb must have such features as [+Anaphoric] mentioned above in order to allow the presence of BA in the sentence. The use of BA is but one of the common syntactic phenomena of these disposal sentences. They also behave similarly in other ways. It is also demonstrated that the syntactic phenomena of BA-sentences are but some of the consequences of similar Chinese sentences sharing the same presuppositions.