Resultative verb compounds and ba-construction in Chinese
汉语 “把字句” 结构中的表结果动词
Qian Gao 高钱

Abstract 摘要
Recent years have witnessed a debate about whether Chinese is underlyingly an SOV or an SVO language. One of the foci in this debate is on the bǎ construction. In this paper I will review some of the important argumentations in this debate and reveal that none of the SOV analyses give a satisfactory solution to the problem. Following Tsao 1987, I propose that the bǎ NP is fronted to a pre-verbal secondary topic position from an underlying post-verbal position. Further, I propose that the ungrammaticality of certain bǎ constructions can be explained by reference to GB Control Theory. Based on the large body of data available about resultatives in Mandarin, I suggest that the notion of "Control", which is generally assumed to be lexical property of specific verbs, can be dealt with syntactically through the general principle of Minimality at S-Structure. The paper demonstrates that Chinese is an SVO language.

在近三十年来关于汉语是主动宾语言还是主宾动语言的探讨中，对把字句结构的不同分析一直是问题的中心论点。本文将对一些重要的论据进行剖析，并且指出关于汉语是主宾动语言的各种论证中的不妥之处。依据曹逢甫先生（1987）的论点，我认为 “把”名词短语是从深层结构的动词之后前移到动词之前的第二主题位置。我同时指出，应用管约理论中的控制论，一些把字句的无解现象可以得到正确地解释。根据大量的表结果动词的汉语例句，我认为通常被看作是属于某些动词的词法范畴的控制功能可以用句法结构中的 “最近距离原则” (Minimality) 作出圆满地解释。本文同时证实了汉语是一种主动宾语言。

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