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Passivization in Chinese takes place by placing the active Patient in subject position and demoting the active Agent to the bei-phrase. There are two noticeable differences between Chinese and English. First, the transitive verb in Chinese remains the same in the passive. Second, the bei-phrase is obligatorily present, which is a significant structural indicator of passive. These structural differences are shown to yield a host of different perceptual patterns of English passives by Chinese EFL learners. For our discussion, we have taken a survey among 50 Chinese college students to examine how they perceive English passives into Chinese. In this survey, we asked them to translate 5 short passives and 5 long passives with the by-phrase. The survey results reveal that the former give rise to a variety of Chinese constructions such as accusative constructions, ba-constructions, ergative constructions, existential constructions, and middle constructions other than Chinese passives. The latter, on the other hand, are perceived as accusative constructions and ba-constructions. We attribute this to the fact that passivization in Chinese is not highly productive and the subjects are strongly influenced by the by-phrase in their perception of English passives.

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Abstract
I. Introduction
II. Properties of Passives in English and Chinese
2.1 Morphological Form of Passive Verbs
2.2 By-Phrase and Bei-Phrase
2.3 Theta Role and Case Assignment
2.4 Ba-Constructions
III. Method
3.1 Subjects
3.2 Materials and Procedure
3.3 Results and Discussion
IV. Conclusion
Works Cited
Appendix

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저자

• Kun-Peng Zhang [ Chungbuk National University ] First author
• Seung-Man Kang [ Chungbuk National University ] Corresponding author

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학연구 [Studies on English Language & Literature]

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• pISSN

  1226-8682

• 수록기간

  1972~2020

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 820