The Syntactic Mechanism of the Indirect Meaning of the WXDY Construction

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YANG Chaojun, YANG Gengqian. The Syntactic Mechanism of the Indirect Meaning of the WXDY Construction[J]. Contemporary Foreign Languages Studies, 2021, 21(3): 71-83.

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		原型构式	非原型构式
句法中心		this fly is doing	this fly is doing in my soup
形态功能		Aspect: progressive	Aspect: modality
语义		Open proposition	Close proposition
语用	IF	Interrogative	Condemning
Focus structure	Narrow focus on PrCs	Wide focus on the core

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