This book systematically reviews various syntactic and semantic issues in the study of Chinese "Ba" sentences. The book is divided into two parts: the first section summarizes the composition and syntactic structure of "Ba" sentences; the second part to brings together the semantic and pragmatic issues of "Ba" sentences. This scholarly volume discusses the characteristics of each component of "Ba" sentences, the restrictive relationship between components, the syntactic transformation of "Ba" sentences, and the generation method of "Ba" sentences. This book also empathizes the volition of the subject, the definiteness of the object, the result of the action, the dispositional meaning of the sentence pattern, and the pragmatic characteristics of "Ba" sentences. It will be served as a valuable resource for scholars in the field of Mandarin Chinese.

Zhang Bojiang is a researcher at the Institute of Linguistics. He is currently the director of the Institute of Linguistics, director of the Academic Committee of the Institute, and dean of the College of Arts of the University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, President of the Chinese Language Society, Expert Advisory Committee on Standardization of Legislative Terms of the Legislative Affairs Committee of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, Member of the Eighth Discipline Evaluation Group of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council, Deputy Director of the Editorial Committee of Compulsory Education Chinese Textbooks. He has published more than 100 papers in domestic and foreign journals.