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Numeral Classifiers in Chinese
The Syntax-Semantics Interface
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XuPing Li
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English
Published/Copyright:
2013
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This book studies the syntax and semantics of numeral classifiers in Mandarin and other Chinese languages. It explores how Chinese classifiers are semantically interpreted in syntactic contexts and how semantic functions of classifiers are realized at the syntactic level. The book is a contribution to formal Chinese linguistics, and to the understanding of grammatical properties of nominal phrases in Chinese and East Asian languages.
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Xuping Li, Center for the Study of Language and Cognition, Zhejiang University, China.
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Preface
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Contents
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Chapter 1: Introduction
1 - Part I: The debate on a count/mass distinction in Chinese
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Chapter 2: Defining classifiers
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Chapter 3: The count/mass distinction in Chinese revisited
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Chapter 4: Natural atomicity
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Chapter 5: Chinese bare nouns
86 - Part II: Functions of classifiers: counting and measuring
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Chapter 6: Counting and measure functions of classifiers
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Chapter 7: Adjectival modification in classifier phrases: pre-classifier adjectives
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Chapter 8: Modification marker de in classifier phrases
202 - Part III: Definiteness in classifier languages
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Chapter 9: Definite classifiers in southern Chinese languages
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Chapter 10: Definite classifiers and their modifiers
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References
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Index
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August 29, 2013
eBook ISBN:
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August 19, 2013
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