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DEDICATION ii | 10 |
LIST OF FIGURES xiv | 12 |
THE BASIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE FOUR CONSTRUCTIONS | 14 |
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agentless bei constructions agents and patients alternate Average RD bă and AVP bă and jiang bă and PV bă/jiang constructions bèi Bianwen Chapter chi-square tests Chinese constructions expressing context contrast and listing contrast/listing function dào diachronic discourse function discourse-pragmatic functions discussed dissertation factors following discourse four constructions four periods given in Table Givón grammaticalization Honglou Meng jiăng jiang constructions Kruskal-Wallis tests listing PV constructions Mandarin Chinese mén Ming-Qing and modern Ming-Qing texts modern texts morpheme negation Neican nine adverbs Non-C non-human object marker postverbal complement preceding discourse preverbal RD and TP Relative frequency replaceable bă results in Table results of text semantic sentence Shuihu Zhuan Song Baihua Song Ming-Qing Modern Song texts static syntactic Tang Dynasty Tang Song Ming-Qing Tang texts text counts Textual analysis shows three constructions three periods tokens topic-comment Total N Tang total number transitive constructions Wang Li word order