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In this thesis, there are four parts to explain systematically and fully the features and functions of rang and the referable sentence-types.The first part defines "rang" in "N₁+rang+N₂+V₂" as a verb and the sentence-type as telescopic form. It focuses the semantic feature of N₂ and V₂ and the relationship between each and N₁. We conclude that N₂ specializes [+doer of action]. The total sum of ability of [+doer of action] of N₁ and N₂ is definite. When "rang" means command, permit and allow respectively, N₁'s initial willing active weakens successively. And when "rang" means result, it lays particular emphasis on what changes on N₂. It shows a result, so the V₂ can be an adjective. In addition, the telescopic form with "rang" has its own speciality.The second part discusses systematically the use of "rang" as a passive preposition. Although "rang" both can be used causative and passive, through contrast, the characters and differences between the two usages of "rang" as causative and passive are analyzed from the angle of syntax and semantic and so on. The slight differences between the passive pattern of sentence with "rang" and "bei" are compared from the points of view of form and expression. It also approaches the distribution of the passive pattern of sentence with "rang", including the special syntax.The third part points that many scholars hold that the nominal after the Chinese word "rang" can't be omitted. But we testify the existence of phenomena "rang+VP" according to the fact. And it's commonly seen. It also analyses the features and functions of rang from the point of syntactic function. The reasons of this phenomena include language principle of economy, easy to read principle, sentences pairing need and swallowing syllables.The fourth part analyses and describes the grammaticalization process of "rang" from the diachronic point of view. It discusses how "rang" develops from a verb to a preposition, then an auxiliary word. It also inspects how "rang" becomes a morpheme. We also verify diachronic research from synchronic variation phenomena. When the valency of V₂ is not in correspondence with its semantic direction, it results the ambiguity between causative and passive. We can use the ways of sentence-type changing, words permutation, words adding, words changing and concrete context to disambiguate. We can differ the ambiguity caused by causative inner polysemy of "rang" only in theconcrete context.