Abstract

The most common problem for international students learning Chinese passive sentences is the misuse of unmarked passive sentences as "bei" sentences. Despite numerous studies on unmarked passive sentences and "bei" sentences, none have effectively addressed the issue of students' misuse. This paper draws on theories and methods from contrastive linguistics, error analysis, and semantics. It examines the characteristics and semantic features of verbs in unmarked passive sentences and "bei" sentences, using the modern Chinese corpus of Peking University (CCL) as a basis. A classification was conducted on 282 verbs from the Grade A word list of the "Outline," categorizing them into four types: verbs that can only be used in unmarked passive sentences, verbs that can only be used in "bei" sentences, verbs that can be used in both types of sentences, and verbs that cannot be used in either type. The reasons for international students' misuse of unmarked passive sentences as "bei" sentences were analyzed from the perspective of verbs, aiming to better address this issue

Keywords

international students; unmarked passive sentences; sentences with the particle "被"; misuse

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