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Numeral Classifiers in Chinese

The Syntax-Semantics Interface
  • XuPing Li
Language: 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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August 29, 2013
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