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Can anyone give a cogent, simply described explanation of why the verb BE in:
. doesn’t seem to be able to be contracted with the subject:
Compare the sentences above with:
These are perfectly fine. In fact, the contractions here should be expected in almost all examples of spoken English.
Answers with references to authoritative vetted sources would be greatly appreciated.
3 Answers 3
(1) The word «it» doesn’t like to be stressed. (2) Normally, a sentence has its strongest stress on the last thing that can be stressed, which in a simple subject-verb-object sentence will the object, since that is the last thing.
(3) Stressed vowels cannot be deleted.
Putting together (1-3), we deduce that the «is» in «What is it?» will be stressed, and consequently cannot be contracted to *»What’s it?», because that would require deleting the «i» of «is», which must be stressed because of the following «it».
It’s a perfectly grammatical contraction, though it doesn’t commonly stand alone; it’s usually followed by another word.
The problem with your example is that in the short, stand alone phrase «What is it?» (just as with Who is it?), the emphasis is on is, not what. If there is no emphasis on is, then the phrase is simply What? If the emphasis is on it, then something for the dummy-it must be stated, as in the cases above, or, What’s it like outside? (Who’s it gonna be?)
edited to add: Please see @John Lawler’s comment.
Why are people so averse to providing context? English lives and breathes through context.
The proper way to approach this is to ask how the expressions are used, not to examine them as isolated phrases that can be poked at and dissected without any reference to real-life usage.
(a) Jane points at an object lying on the table. She says, «What’s that?»
The word ‘that’ is strongly stressed. We understand that something new has come to Jane’s attention. The something is that. The verb ‘is’ cannot take a position of stress because that is already occupied.
(b) Jane points at an object lying on the table. She says
«What is that?»
This time, the word ‘is’ is strongly stressed. Jane is talking about something that is already under scrutiny by those present but now she is saying, «I see it but now I want to know what it is» Clearly we can’t abbreviate ‘is’ in this case.
Now all we have to do is apply the same reasoning to ‘it’.
(c) Someone hands an object to Jane, she enquires, «What is it?» This is similar to case (b). There is a known object and Jane wants some information about it.
(d) Now we come to the ‘impossible’ case. There is an object.
Jane says, «What’s it?«
This should be like case (a). That is to say, the object is new to Jane. However a vital property of the word ‘it’ is that it must have an antecedent. Therefore Jane must already have mentioned it. So it can’t be like case (a). This case doesn’t happen because there can never be a context that warrants it.
Conclusion
You can only understand the reason by considering the contexts in which the expressions can be used. You cannot do it by simply reasoning about the isolated phrase—English requires context.
Unlike for ‘this’ and ‘that’, there is simply no context that allows emphasis on the word ‘it’.