Ask for references

[Ping Li]

Hi Lin,

The Li (1991) article that Thomas Lee mentioned was revised and appeared in:

	Li, P. (1993). The acquisition of the ZAI and BA
constructions in Mandarin Chinese. In: J.C.P. Liang & R.P.E. Sybesma
(eds.) From classical 'Fú' to 'Three inches high': Studies on Chinese
in honor of Erik Zürcher. Leuven/Apeldoorn: Garant Publishers,
103-120.


The following articles/book might also be interesting to you
regarding the acquisition of resultative verb compounds:

  	Li, P. & Bowerman, M. (1998). The acquisition of grammatical
and lexical aspect in Chinese. First Language, 18, 311-350.

	Klein, W., Li, P., & Hendriks, H. (2000). Aspect and
assertion in Mandarin Chinese. Natural Language and Linguistic
Theory, 18, 723-770.

  	Li, P., & Shirai, Y. (2000). The acquisition of lexical and
grammatical aspect. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter.


Some of the articles can be requested through our website:

http://cogsci.richmond.edu/


Good luck!


Ping Li
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>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