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  <Title>Realization of the Chinese BA-construction in an English-Chinese Machine Translation System</Title>
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4 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In this paper we have discussed a special Chinese syntactic structure: the BA-construction which is quite controversial in the literature but nevertheless less problematic in our work. After comparing with other syntactic structures, we finally adopt the idea that the BA-construction shows more characteristics of a PP which is still governed by the verb which follows it, in particular in our work. We thus treat this structure as a PP rather than a VP. This is supported by the relatively simpler sentence structures found in our corpus. While constructing our grammar and formulating the BA-structure, we lay focus on the syntactic performance and semantic contents that the BA-construction exhibits. Based on the verb types and the semantic content of the preposition following the verb, we finally formulate two kinds of sentence types concerning the BA-construction in the target language which can well satisfy our purpose. Of course, like many 11 V_3: refers to the syntactic pattern of the verb. other language-specific syntactic structures, our analysis and practice can not satisfy all situations. However, as we work on a relatively narrow domain where the sentence types by themselves do not vary greatly. We can find a better solution by controlling the syntactic types to tackle the problems concerning the BA-construction and the alike.</Paragraph>
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