Studies of the Bei-Sentence in Modern Chinese

This book studies the Bei-Sentence in modern Chinese. Based on a number of previous research studies, the author makes clear and in-depth explorations.

The book is divided into 5 chapters, discussing respectively the basic patterns of the Bei- Sentence, the appearance/disappearance and its restrictive factors of the components of the Bei- Sentence, the transfer between the Bei-Sentence and the topic sentence, the new usages of the Bei-Sentence, and other issues.

Using abundant corpus, this book endeavors to combine the analysis with the induction, and the classification with the statistics, thus having much academic value.