This paper proposes a new analysis of buyu in terms of the notion of secondary predication. It claims that buyu can be classified into two categories,i.e.,secondary predication and post-posing adverbial. The former predicates the subject or the object after the primary predication,and the latter modifies the predicate as adverbs,adpositional phrases or temporal and verbal classifiers.
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