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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Mem Lang. 2013 Sep 7;69(4):10.1016/j.jml.2013.08.002. doi: 10.1016/j.jml.2013.08.002

Table 1.

Frequency of constructions in a search of 20,376 sentences from the Lancaster Corpus of Mandarin Chinese (McEnery, Xiao, & Mo, 2003).

Total Constructions
All arguments
Dropped argument
AG-TH-Verb TH-AG-Verb SVO MK-TH-Verb TH-MK-Verb Other
% of all BA 2118 (62%) 836 (40%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 1147 (54%) 0 (0%) 135 (6%)
% of all BEI 1278 (38%) 0 (0%) 505 (39%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 747 (58%) 26 (3%)

Notes: AG is the agent, TH is the theme, MK is the marker, BEI is the passive marker, and BA is the object marker.