{"id":51393,"date":"2024-10-19T11:02:22","date_gmt":"2024-10-19T09:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/?page_id=51393"},"modified":"2024-10-19T11:13:03","modified_gmt":"2024-10-19T09:13:03","slug":"guan-et-al","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/en\/journals\/papers-of-the-lsb\/volume-18-2024\/guan-et-al\/","title":{"rendered":"A multifactorial analysis of Chinese analytic long passive constructions marked by\u00a0b\u00e8i, g\u011bi\u00a0and\u00a0r\u00e0ng\u00a0in contemporary Chinese"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Journal<\/strong><br>Papers of the Linguistic Society of Belgium, vol. 18 (2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Author(s)<\/strong><br>Sumin Guan, Benedikt Szmrecsanyi &amp; Weiwei Zhang<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Abstract<\/strong><br>Analytic passive constructions marked by <em>b\u00e8i<\/em>\/<em>g\u011bi<\/em>\/<em>r\u00e0ng<\/em> are the predominant strategy to indicate passive voice in Mandarin Chinese. While the Mandarin passive has been studied from various perspectives, it has not yet been analyzed using multifactorial methods to investigate its alternation. This study employs such methods to determine how language-internal factors predict the choice between <em>b\u00e8i<\/em>, <em>g\u011bi<\/em>, and <em>r\u00e0ng<\/em> long passives in Mandarin. Additionally, it examines whether the choice of variant differs between Mainland Chinese and Taiwan Chinese. To determine the combined effect of multiple linguistic factors, we use mixed-effects logistic regression based on a richly annotated dataset, following best practices in variationist (socio)linguistics. The results show that the marker <em>b\u00e8i<\/em> is preferred in atypical passive constructions. <em>G\u011bi<\/em> passives convey a more colloquial tone, while <em>r\u00e0ng<\/em> passives inherit the attribute of avoidable events from <em>r\u00e0ng<\/em> causatives, avoiding inanimate NP1s to prevent ambiguities. In comparison to Mainland Chinese, it is observed that in Taiwan Chinese, the typical passive marker <em>b\u00e8i<\/em> is more closely aligned with the old-before-new information structure paradigm and the traditional requirements of passive constructions in Mandarin Chinese. The marker <em>r\u00e0ng<\/em> serves as a substitute for <em>b\u00e8i<\/em> when the context is positive. In contrast, Mainland Chinese is more innovative than Taiwan Chinese in the use of <em>g\u011bi<\/em> passives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>DOI<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.61430\/DRHH1704\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.61430\/DRHH1704 <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-font-size has-small-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:500\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/papersLSB_guan-et-al_2024.pdf\" style=\"border-radius:13px\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">View full-text<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JournalPapers of the Linguistic Society of Belgium, vol. 18 (2024) Author(s)Sumin Guan, Benedikt Szmrecsanyi &amp; Weiwei Zhang AbstractAnalytic passive constructions marked by b\u00e8i\/g\u011bi\/r\u00e0ng are the &hellip; <a title=\"A multifactorial analysis of Chinese analytic long passive constructions marked by\u00a0b\u00e8i, g\u011bi\u00a0and\u00a0r\u00e0ng\u00a0in contemporary Chinese\" class=\"bnm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/en\/journals\/papers-of-the-lsb\/volume-18-2024\/guan-et-al\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A multifactorial analysis of Chinese analytic long passive constructions marked by\u00a0b\u00e8i, g\u011bi\u00a0and\u00a0r\u00e0ng\u00a0in contemporary Chinese<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":0,"parent":51263,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-51393","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","bnm-entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51393"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51433,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51393\/revisions\/51433"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}