Numeral Classifiers in Chinese: The Syntax-Semantics Interface

XuPing Li

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Numeral Classifiers in Chinese

The Syntax-Semantics Interface

XuPing Li

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2013

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Volume 250 | Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]

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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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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	vii
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	xv
Chapter 1: Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Part I: The debate on a count/mass distinction in Chinese
Chapter 2: Defining classifiers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	13
Chapter 3: The count/mass distinction in Chinese revisited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	42
Chapter 4: Natural atomicity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	68
Chapter 5: Chinese bare nouns Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	86
Part II: Functions of classifiers: counting and measuring
Chapter 6: Counting and measure functions of classifiers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	127
Chapter 7: Adjectival modification in classifier phrases: pre-classifier adjectives Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	174
Chapter 8: Modification marker de in classifier phrases Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	202
Part III: Definiteness in classifier languages
Chapter 9: Definite classifiers in southern Chinese languages Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	233
Chapter 10: Definite classifiers and their modifiers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	275
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	291
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	307

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eBook published on:

August 29, 2013

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9783110289336

Hardcover published on:

August 19, 2013

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110287639

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15

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309

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4

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110289336

eBook ISBN: 9783110289336

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110287639

Keywords for this book

Numeral Classifiers; Bare Nouns; Determiners; Chinese

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