TRANSITIVITY AND THE BA CONSTRUCTION
In this paper, I discuss the legitimacy of positing a Transitivity Projection (= TrP cf.Bowers 1993, 1997, 2001 and 2002) in the BA construction in Mandarin Chinese.BA has been proposed to be a semantically-bleached verb, inserted in the v position (Huang 1997 and Lin 2001).Several pieces of evidence such as manner adverbial placement (cf.Huang, Li