Aspect-Sensitive Agent Omission in Mandarin

Yan Zhang is Assistant Professor in School of Foreign Languages at Jiangsu University at Zhenjiang, China. She finished her PhD in Linguistics from University College London in 2022. Her current research interests focus on the syntactic structure of Chinese in the framework of Generative Grammar, especially argument structure and aspects.

• Introduction.- Agent omission with -za.- Agent omission with -zhe.- Agent omission with -le.- Agent omission with -guo.- Concluding remarks.