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In modern Chinese, a considerable number of shi still possess the grammatical attributes of a demonstrative pronoun. This usage originates from that ofshi as a predicate in ancient Chinese. As a demonstrative pronoun, shi functions as a very flexible anaphor, whose characteristics may help us to distinguish it as a demonstrative pronoun from shi as a verb.
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Qu, S., Yu, Y. (2013). Study on “shi” as a Demonstrative Pronoun in Modern Chinese. In: Ji, D., Xiao, G. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7717. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36337-5_42
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