Pengfei Kuang

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Long, Haiping and Pengfei Kuang 2017 Modern Chinese confirmative shi: Auxiliary or adverb? Functions of Language 24:3, pp. 294–318 | Article
Modern Chinese confirmative shi (as in mei cuo, wo shi yao dusi ni (沒錯，我是要毒死你) ‘that’s right. I really wanted to poison you to death’) is not an auxiliary but an adverb. It derives from the adjective shi ‘true, real’ in Old Chinese (Yan zhi yan shi ye (偃之言是也) ‘what Yan said was true’). The… read more