New Study Reveals Rules for Highlighting Subjects in Chinese Sentences
The article explains that when talking about a person doing something in a sentence, you can't use certain words together if you want to emphasize that person. For example, you can't use "shi" and "dou" or "jiu" at the same time. Also, you can't use "shi" and "lian" together in the same sentence. And if a person is the main topic of the sentence, they can't be emphasized with "shi".