Screen LibraryNumeral classifiers in chinese : the syntax-semantics interface /
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...
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De Gruyter Mouton,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
| Publication Dates: | [2013] |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Trends in linguistics. studies and monographs [tilsm];
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| Online Access: |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110289336 http://www.degruyter.com/doc/cover/9783110289336.jpg |
| Summary: |
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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1 online resource(xv,309pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
| ISBN: | 9783110289336（electronic bk.） |
| Index Number: | PL1279 |
| CLC: | H15 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Defining classifiers -- Chapter 3: The count/mass distinction in Chinese revisited -- Chapter 4: Natural atomicity -- Chapter 5: Chinese bare nouns -- Chapter 6: Counting and measure functions of classifiers -- Chapter 7: Adjectival modification in classifier phrases: pre-classifier adjectives -- Chapter 8: Modification marker de in classifier phrases -- Chapter 9: Definite classifiers in southern Chinese languages -- Chapter 10: Definite classifiers and their modifiers -- References -- Index. |