Exhaustivity, Contrastivity, and the Semantics of Mandarin Cleft-related Structures

The book contributes to a fuller description and a uniformed analysis of Mandarin cleft constructions.

The book provides the first Mandarin empirical data towards some heated theoretical debates.

The book yields a good combination of theoretical formal semantics, semantic-pragmatic interface studies, corpus analyses, and the newly emerging experimental semantics.

Typologically speaking, Mandarin shi…(de) presents some characteristics of the that are rarely found with its counterparts in other languages.