Ask for references

[Thomas Hun-tak Lee]

Dear Lin,

Below are some references i'm aware of on Ba sentences:

Cheung, Hintat (1992) The Acquisition of BA in Mandarin. Doctoral dissertation. University of
Kansas.

Li, Ping (1991) 'zai and ba constructions in child Mandarin', CRL Newsletter (vol 5, no. 5)
  San Diego, CA: University of California, San Diego.

The following are related to verb causativity and result:

Cheung, Hintat and Li Hsieh (1997) "Learning a new verb in Mandarin chinese:
the effects of affectness condition and phonological shape", Journal of Chinese Linguistics vol. 25,
no. 1

Cheung, Sik Lee (1990) "The acquisition of locative constructions in Cantonese"
 Papers and Reports in Child Language Development 29.

Cheung, Sik Lee (1991) "The notion of result in Cantonese children"
 Papers and Reports in Child Language Development 30.

Cheung, Sik Lee (1998) "Causative verbs in child Cantonese"(?) in Eve Clark (ed)
Proceedings of the 29th Child Language Research Forum. Stanford: CSLI.

Hope this information will be of help.

best, thomas lee


----- Original Message -----
From: Hua Lin <hualin at usc.edu>
To: <info-childes at mail.talkbank.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 2:21 PM
Subject: Ask for references


Hello, my name is Lin and I am a graduate student of Linguistics in USC
(university of southern California).
I am currently taking a course of child language acquisition and trying to
do some research.  I am interested in acquisition of resultative verb
compound, BA-construction and causative constructions in Chinese.  I am
wondering if anyone could give me some reference/ previous studies on this
area.
Thank you very much.


Best,
Hua Lin
hualin at usc.edu