Sentences like That’s a beautiful dress you’re wearing are commonly heard in colloquial English. These sentences have a surface form that resembles identificational copular sentences with relative clause modifiers (e.g., This is the house I mentioned) and cleft sentences with demonstrative subjects (e.g., That was John that I saw). Ever since Higgins’s (1973) seminal work, English copular sentences have received much attention, but sentences like That’s a beautiful dress you’re wearing have not been part of that discussion. In this squib, I show how these sentences are both similar and dissimilar to identificationals and clefts, and suggest a formal analysis that captures their characteristic properties.

像That's a beautiful dress you're wear 这样的句子在口语英语中很常见。这些句子的表面形式类似于带有关系从句修饰语的识别连接句（例如，This is the house I提到）和带有指示主语的分裂句（例如，那是我看到的约翰）。自从 Higgins (1973) 的开创性工作以来，英语常用句就受到了很多关注，但是像That's a beautiful dress you're wear 之类的句子并没有成为讨论的一部分。在这个爆竹中，我展示了这些句子与识别词和裂缝的相似之处和不同之处，并提出了一种捕捉它们特征属性的正式分析。