In:The Development of the Chinese Cleft Construction: A diachronic constructional approach
Fangqiong Zhan
[Constructional Approaches to Language 41] 2026
► pp. xi–xii
Published online: 5 February 2026
https://doi.org/10.1075/cal.41.lot
https://doi.org/10.1075/cal.41.lot
List of tables
Table 4.1The token frequency of shi and its use in [NP shi NP]85
Table 4.2Comparison of the use of the copula wei construction with that of the copula shi
construction85
Table 4.3The proportion of wei ‘to be’ to shi ‘to be’86
Table 4.4The proportion of wei…suo… to wei86
Table 4.5The token frequency of adverb preceding shi in the string [(XP) shi XP (PTCL)]87
Table 4.6The final particle distribution in the string [(XP) shi XP (PTCL)]88
Table 4.7The frequency of simple NPs in the string [(XP) shi XP (PTCL)]88
Table 5.1The frequency of [NP COP (XP) VP
DE] constructions over time113
