What is the function of BA (把) in Chinese?
The function of Bă (把) is doing V to NP2 to cause a salient change X. The form-function mapping construction is showed as follows,
NP1 BA NP2 V X
Agent Causer BA Patient Causee V X (de-Comp result, extent direction)
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