A Construction Grammar Approach to "bei XX" Structure
Jun‐Wei Zhu · 2010
As a catchword on the Internet,bei structure has been used widely and is very productive.Simulated and extended from the traditional bei construction,it is basically used to express the falsity or unwillingness as regards XX action.All three form-meaning pairings are abstracted to form a super-ordinate construction over them.A cognitive linguistic study of this construction reveals its semantic extension and pragmatic motivation.