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Deconstructing the shì … de construction

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ID20344458
AutoresLisa Lai-Shen Cheng (0000-0002-0350-5640, Leiden University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2008
Volumen25
Número3-4
Fecha de publicación2008-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Linguistic Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0167-6318 • E-ISSN: 1613-3676
EditorialWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/tlir.2008.007
OpenAlexW2006747424
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas33
Referencias citadas10

This article re-examines the controversial shì...de construction, which will be shown to involve different types of structures, with different syntactic properties. The core of the analysis proposed in this paper is two folds: (a) shì is a copula, which selects a small clause (with a subject and a predicate), and (b) de marks the presence of two different non-overt operators (a generalized lamba-operator, and an assertion opera-tor). It is argued that the focus reading connected with shì is simply related to its copular/verbal property; it is also shown that phonological prominence can mark nar-row and contrast focus, which is argued to show syntactic reflex. 1

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