Classifier Structures in Mandarin Chinese
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 classifier…
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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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- Publication Date:2013.
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- Publisher(s):De Gruyter
- Place of Publication:Berlin
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2013.
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- Description:1 online resource (332 pages)
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- ISBN:9783110304992, 3110304996, 9781299722378, 1299722377
- DOI:10.1515/9783110304992
- oclc:ocn851970598
- LC Classification:PL1129.E5
- Dewey Decimal:495.15
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Classifiers and countability; 2.1. Introduction; 2.2. Decomposing countability; 2.2.1. Identifying two new features syntagmatically; 2.2.2. Defining count and mass by the two features; 2.2.3. Attesting the two features in co-occurrence restrictions; 2.2.4. Attesting the two features in pronominalization; 2.2.5. Attesting the two features in shifts; 2.2.6. Numerability and number; 2.3. The two features in nouns; 2.3.1. Numerability of nouns; 2.3.2. Delimitability of nouns; 2.4. The two features in unit words.
2.4.1. CLs and measure words2.4.2. Unit words that occur with [-Delimitable]; 2.4.3. Unit words that occur with [+Delimitable]; 2.4.4. Unit words that occur with [±Delimitable]; 2.4.5. The CL ge; 2.4.6. Unit words as unique Numerability bearers in Chinese; 2.4.7. Delimitability of unit words; 2.5. Reflections on the studies of countability; 2.5.1. What's new?; 2.5.2. The semantic approach to countability; 2.5.3. The morphological approach to countability; 2.5.4. The multi-criteria approach to countability; 2.5.5. Other non-binary analyses of countability; 2.5.6. Experimental perspective.
2.6. Reflections on …
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