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@article{ART001992712},
author={Seul-Ki Lee},
title={Ellipsis phenomena of copula "shi" in Mandarin Chinese},
journal={JOURNAL OF CHINESE STUDIES},
issn={1229-3806},
year={2015},
number={48},
pages={31-61},
doi={10.26585/chlab.2015..48.002}

TY - JOUR
AU - Seul-Ki Lee
TI - Ellipsis phenomena of copula "shi" in Mandarin Chinese
JO - JOURNAL OF CHINESE STUDIES
PY - 2015
VL - null
IS - 48
PB - CHINESE STUDIES INSTITUTE
SP - 31
EP - 61
SN - 1229-3806
AB - We find that a lot of copula sentences in the spoken modern Chinese language environment, often exhibit no verbal 'NP1 + NP2' form. For example, "Wo shi shanghairen." So, 'NP1 + is + NP2' and 'NP1 + NP2' is one structure or two structure? In this paper, this problem is to departure. In this paper, the basic ideological foundation: the sentence is consisted of Subject and Predication (Chomsky); and nominal components can not serve as the predication of a sentence. Therefore, we believe that the two structures is actually one structure, we regard the one is the verb ellipsis form than the other. Firstly, We find that There are many similarities characters between the English copula "be" and the Chinese 'shi', We refer to the analysis of English copula sentences as a basis for re-analysis of modern Chinese 'shi' copula sentence's structure and classification. We regard Chinese copula 'shi' as a 'raising verb', the 'Small clause' as its complement. Moreover, we distribute the 'Copula sentences' into three classes, 'entity sentences', 'predicational sentences'and 'specificaitonal sentenses'. Secondly, we reanalyses Chinese predicative DP serving as a predicate in sentence, and analyses which components play a role in the ellipsis copula sentences. Finally, summarize the limit condition of the Chinese copula ellipsis phenomena.
KW - Copula sentences;Ellipsis;Raising verb;Small clause;Predicative DP
DO - 10.26585/chlab.2015..48.002
ER -

Seul-Ki Lee. (2015). Ellipsis phenomena of copula "shi" in Mandarin Chinese. JOURNAL OF CHINESE STUDIES, 48, 31-61.

Seul-Ki Lee. 2015, "Ellipsis phenomena of copula "shi" in Mandarin Chinese", JOURNAL OF CHINESE STUDIES, no.48, pp.31-61. Available from: doi:10.26585/chlab.2015..48.002

Seul-Ki Lee "Ellipsis phenomena of copula "shi" in Mandarin Chinese" JOURNAL OF CHINESE STUDIES 48 pp.31-61 (2015) : 31.

Seul-Ki Lee. Ellipsis phenomena of copula "shi" in Mandarin Chinese. 2015; 48 : 31-61. Available from: doi:10.26585/chlab.2015..48.002

Seul-Ki Lee. "Ellipsis phenomena of copula "shi" in Mandarin Chinese" JOURNAL OF CHINESE STUDIES no.48(2015) : 31-61.doi: 10.26585/chlab.2015..48.002

Seul-Ki Lee. Ellipsis phenomena of copula "shi" in Mandarin Chinese. JOURNAL OF CHINESE STUDIES, 48, 31-61. doi: 10.26585/chlab.2015..48.002

Seul-Ki Lee. Ellipsis phenomena of copula "shi" in Mandarin Chinese. JOURNAL OF CHINESE STUDIES. 2015; 48 31-61. doi: 10.26585/chlab.2015..48.002

Seul-Ki Lee. Ellipsis phenomena of copula "shi" in Mandarin Chinese. 2015; 48 : 31-61. Available from: doi:10.26585/chlab.2015..48.002

Seul-Ki Lee. "Ellipsis phenomena of copula "shi" in Mandarin Chinese" JOURNAL OF CHINESE STUDIES no.48(2015) : 31-61.doi: 10.26585/chlab.2015..48.002