Ba' sentences whose constructions are considerably complicated are very common and are used frequently in the latter-day Chinese. There are more than 1 500 Ba sentences in the Legend of ShuiHu. They can be summarized to 11 sentence types. Most of their prepositional objects are definitive. Their definiteness or indefiniteness is endued by their syntactic position in the sentence. There are two different kinds of disposition in verbal semantic: objective disposition and subjective disposition. The prepositive negative marker 'bu' is confined strictly. The universality in the latter-day Chinese ...
