Clause Integration and Scalar Salience:The Formation of Focus Particle"Napa"
In addition to being a concessional condition conjunction in complex sentences,"napa"(哪怕)can also be a focus particle in a simple sentence,which is the result of the integration of clauses.The"napa-clause"initially enters the main clause in the form of parenthesis,and becomes the dependent component after syntactic degradation.In a simple sentence,"napa"focuses on the scalar component that follows,and forms an emphatic expression through the extreme value,showing the perspective,affect and epistmic modality of the speaker.The motivation for the integration of the"napa-clause"is the gestalt restructuring of the infor-mation structure.The adjacency of the"napa-clause"to the main sentence is an important syntactic condition for the integration,and desententialization of subordinate clause,syntactic degradation and intonation fusion are the mechanisms of such integration.
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