海外英语(上)
海外英語(上)
해외영어(상)
Overseas English
2013年
4期
278-284
,共7页
island redemption%left branch condition%sluice%pseudosluicing
With the help of the island repair effect on the Left Branch Condition (LBC), the derivation of Chinese sluicing can be illuminated. However, it fails to explain three unique properties of Chinese island repair related to the LBC involving (i) co?vert antecedents, (ii) contrastive modifiers, and (iii) multiple islands including LBC structures. To capture the facts, a pseudosluic?ing analysis is proposed which claims that sluiced clauses in Chinese are simply composed of a subject pro, an (optional) copula shi‘be’, and a wh-in-situ wh-remnant serving as a predicate. The pro cannot be interpreted as a concealed cleft structure but in?stead functions as an implicit subject.
