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Bèi 被-construction
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1. Introduction Sentences marked with the morpheme
bèi 被 in Mandarin are known as “
bèi-sentences”, which are to some extent comparable to passive sentences in English. The morpheme
bèi occurs before the agent NP, such as (1), where
Lǐ Sì 李四 is the agent NP and
Zhāng Sān 張三 is the patient NP. When the agent NP is absent,
bèi precedes the verb, as in (2). In what follows, the former is referred to as a long
bèi-sentence while the latter is referred to as a short
bèi-sentence, and
bèi is glossed as “bei” in all the examples. 1. 張三被李四批評了。 Zhāng Sān bèi Lǐ Sì pīpíng le. Zhāng Sān bei Lǐ Sì critic…
Date:
2017-03-02