Classifier Structures in Mandarin Chinese

Summary: In Classifier Structure in Mandarin Chinese, Niina Ning Zhang proposes a new approach to the count-mass contrast, and the properties and functions of classifiers when they occur with numerals, with various quantifiers, in compounds, and in reduplicative forms. The new approach makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the existence of classifiers in numeral classifier languages. The investigation also uncovers that certain non-classifier languages lack only one type of classifiers, whereas other non-classifier languages may lack other types of classifiers.

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ISBN: 3110304996 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9783110304992 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource (332 p.)
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Publisher: Berlin : De Gruyter, 2013.

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General Note:	5.3. Invalid arguments Description based upon print version of record. Multi-User.
Formatted Contents Note:	4.3.1. SUWs as unit-singularity markers4.3.2. The productivity; 4.3.3. The problems of the numeral-deletion analysis; 4.3.4. Definiteness and specificity of SUW nominals; 4.4. Morphological and semantic markedness; 4.5. Number marking in CL languages; 4.6. Chapter summary; Chapter 5: The syntactic constituency of numeral expressions; 5.1. Introduction; 5.2. Four arguments for the non-unified analysis; 5.2.1. The scope of a left-peripheral modifier; 5.2.2. The effect of modifier-association; 5.2.3. Semantic selection; 5.2.4. The order of size and shape modifiers; 5.2.5. Two possible structures
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