Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Abbreviations ix
4. Major chronological divisions of Chinese history xi
5. Chapter 1. Introduction 1
6. Chapter 2. Previous studies of the patient-subject construction 11
7. Chapter 3. What the PSC is not 33
8. Chapter 4. Syntactic and semantic properties of patient-subject constructions 59
9. Chapter 5. ‘Inactiveness’ and ‘backgrounding’ 87
10. Chapter 6. PSC in typological perspective 109
11. Chapter 7. Summary and conclusion 127
12. References 135
13. Appendix I. Verbs 145
14. Appendix II. Other sources 149
15. Appendix III. Dictionary 173
16. Index 203