The Ba Review

Ba-sentences are a widely-used complicated sentence pattern in modern Chinese .It has being an Important question for study. This paper summarizes several important questions in hundands of treatises and tens of monographs. I hope that it will help the research of Ba=sentence structure.1. Ba-sentences' features are prepositional object, predicate complicated, some adverbial modifier position studies.2. The main discussion focused on how to define the syntax of parts related to "Ba-sentences" and there is prepositional object of 'Ba-sentence'; The Ba-object and some views about the following of the subjects; the analysis of the semantic role ,from the pastime to the active, links , position, instrument; whether it is certain , there exsists many arguments.3. About the varieties of Ba-sentences' verb. At the beginning of this research, linguists lay particular emphasis on the mean of verb-disposal. Later some people categorize these verbs basing on meaning variety. Semantic feature and valency studies. They found only lasting verbs, dynamic verbs, controllable verbs, one valency verbs ,two and three valency verbs can enter into this structure.4. Ba-sentence type semantics studies. Majority of linguists thought it's disposal construction. Now it has been varietied into consequence express, tense express and momentum and so on.5. The word-order changed relate to Ba-sentence. At the start point, people emphasized the differences between "S-V-0" sentences. Later they magnified the field to Shi-sentences, Bei-sentences, duplicative-verb sentences.In one word, the structure research on Ba-sentences have gone deep into semantic point but uncomprehensive. One the pragmatics areas, the study is still at the start period. I can foresee the semantic and pragmatic studies will become a hot point.