This paper accounts for the evolution of the bei constructions in Mandarin Chinese and its relation to grammaticalization. It argues that it is not until the period of the Six Dynasties that bei in ...

Picus Sizhi Ding, 丁思志, SEMANTIC CHANGE VERSUS CATEGORICAL CHANGE: A STUDY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF BA IN MANDARIN / 词义转化或词类转化：试论北方话中 「把」 字的演变实质, Journal of Chinese Linguistics, Vol. 29, No. 1 (JANUARY ...

Hiram Smith who is Ruth Everett Sierzega Chair in Linguistic ...

Object Details Author De León, Lourdes Max Planck Institut für Psycholinguistik (Nijmegen, Netherlands) Cognitive Anthropology Research Group Notes Cover title. "October 1962." "These working papers ...