2021年10月1日
Topicality of the Copula Form Shi in Santa Mongolian
Journal on Asian Linguistic Anthropology
- 巻
- 3
- 号
- 4
- 開始ページ
- 67
- 終了ページ
- 90
- 記述言語
- 英語
- 掲載種別
- 研究論文(学術雑誌)
- DOI
- 10.47298/jala.v3-i4-a4
- 出版者・発行元
- The CALA Unit, SOAS University of London
This paper describes the topicality of the copula form shi in Santa Mongolian, as I analyse both the copula and the environment of shi as a topic marker. While previous scholars have simplified the description of shi by suggesting that it is not important owing to the fact that it is merely borrowed from Chinese, I believe that the larger description and context of shi is quite complex. Drawing on previous work and on my own empirical data, I note that the fact that shi is accompanied by a pronoun but not by an interrogative suggests the possibility of an environment of topicality. Regarding meaning function, I show that the shi is used in attributive predicates, in conditional clauses of conditional sentences, in sentences expressing contrast, and in a kind of emphatic construction or when the subject noun phrase is long. Regarding topicality, I discuss the relationship between 是 and the topic, between the topic and condition and the situation of neighboring Mongolic languages. I also discuss the fact that the shi can act as a topic marker in various permutations with the auxiliary verb wo. With this in mind, I conclude that the shi of Santa Mongolian should be analyzed as a topic marker and not as a copula.
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- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.47298/jala.v3-i4-a4
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- DOI : 10.47298/jala.v3-i4-a4
- eISSN : 2207-0656