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Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction Plurality and Classifiers across languages of China 1
5. I Correlations between different types of quantification
6. 1 Numeral classifiers with plural marking. A challenge to Greenberg 23
7. 2 Reduplication in languages: A case study of languages of China 43
8. II Numeral classifiers and their diachronic development
9. 3 The Syntax and prosody of classifiers in Classical Chinese 67
10. 4 Individuating classifiers in Early Southern Min (14th–19th centuries) 101
11. III The expression of plurality
12. 5 Plurality and the subclassification of Nouns in Classical Chinese 121
13. 6 Number in Chinese: a diachronic study of zhū 諸 from Han to Wei Jin Nanbeichao Chinese 143
14. 7 Bu-tong ‘different’ and nominal plurality in Mandarin Chinese 183
15. 8 Plurality in the pronominal paradigms of Bai dialects 203
16. 9 Frequentative aspect and pluractionality in Nuosu Yi 223
17. 10 Quantificational structures in three-yearold Chinese-speaking children 243
18. Author index 283
19. Subject index 287