On the relationship between the active and the passive in Chinese
汉语中被动式与主动式的关系
Chian-li Hsu

Abstract 摘要
Traditionally, transformational grammarians claim that there is a passive transformation in Chinese which relates active and passive sentences. Some linguists, however, have challenged this claim by presenting evidence which, they claim, shows that these two types of sentences in Chinese have different deep structures. This paper examines three of these arguments: A. Hashimoto (1971), M. Hashimoto (1968), Chu (1972); and demonstrates that none are valid.