In this paper, I discuss the legitimacy of positing a Transitivity Projection (= TrP cf.Bowers 1993, 1997, 2001 and 2002) in the BA construction in Mandarin Chinese.BA has been proposed to be a semantically-bleached verb, inserted in the v position (Huang 1997 and Lin 2001).Several pieces of evidence such as manner adverbial placement (cf.Huang, Li

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The paper discusses source domains of smell related metaphorical collocations.The research is limited to metaphorical collocations with pleasant smell denoting words scent, fragrance, aroma, and perfume in the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA).The steely dan gaucho t-shirt scope of the research is 2187 concordance lines (CL) containing

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