%0 Journal Article
%T TRANSITIVITY AND THE BA CONSTRUCTION
%A Pei-Jung Kuo
%J Taiwan Journal of Linguistics
%D 2010
%I Crane Publishing Co
%X In this paper, I discuss the legitimacy of positing a Transitivity Projection (= TrP cf. Bowers 1993, 1997, 2001 and 2002) in the BA construction in Mandarin Chinese. BA has been proposed to be a semantically-bleached verb, inserted in the v position (Huang 1997 and Lin 2001). Several pieces of evidence such as manner adverbial placement (cf. Huang, Li and Li 2009) and GEI-insertion (cf. Tang 2001) indicate that there must be a functional projection between the vP and VP to host the BA NP. I propose that a TrP is probably the most apt candidate for the XP. I also argue, in contrast to the proposal by Huang, Li and Li (2009), that the present proposal which employs a TrP captures most of the properties of the BA construction. A comparison with the structure of the BEI construction also shows that the TrP proposal fits into the general picture of current linguistic theory on transitive constructions without extra stipulations.
%K Transitivity Projection
%K the BA Construction
%K the BEI Construction
%U http://tjl.nccu.edu.tw/volume8-1/8.1-4Kuo.pdf