[ | [ | ... [Pron/∅]C.i ... | ]↴S | (Cop) | [ F ]C.i | ]S↴ |
[ | subject | ] | non-verbal predicate | |||
empty place | focal component | |||||
[ | [ | oriented open clause | ] | non-verbal clause | ] | |
[ | [ | dependent clause | ] | main clause | ] |
. | i. | ¿No | salió | Lucas? |
Spanish | NEG | move.out:PST.PFV.3.SG | Luke | |
Didn’t Luke go out? |
ii. | No; | quien | salió | fue | Lucía. | |
NEG | [who | move.out:PST.PFV.3.SG]↴S | be.PST.PFV:3.SG | Lucy | ||
No; the one going out was Lucy. |
. | No; | salió | fue | Lucía. |
Spanish | NEG | move.out:PST.PFV.3.SG | be.PST.PFV:3.SG | Lucy |
No; Lucy went out. | (Méndez Vallejo 2009: 118) |
References
Creissels, Denis 2021, ‘Remarks on the grammaticalization of identificational clefts’. Faits de Langue 52.1: 13-31.
Hengeveld, Kees 2010, The focalizing copula in Colombian Spanish. Unpublished presentation.
Kato, Mary A. 2010, ‘Clivadas sem operador no Português Brasileiro’. Estudos da Lingua(gem) 8: 61-77.
Méndez Vallejo, Catalina 2013, Focalizing ser (FS) in Colombian Spanish. Online.
Zhan, Fangqiong & Sun, Chaofen 2013, ‘A copula analysis of shì in the Chinese cleft construction’. Language and Linguistics 14(4): 755-789.