Classifier Structures in Mandarin Chinese

✍ Scribed by Niina Ning Zhang

Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Leaves: 332
Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 263
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

In Classifier Structure in Mandarin Chinese, Niina Ning Zhang proposes a new approach to the count-mass contrast, and the properties and functions of classifiers when they occur with numerals, with various quantifiers, in compounds, and in reduplicative forms. The new approach makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the existence of classifiers in numeral classifier languages. The investigation also uncovers that certain non-classifier languages lack only one type of classifiers, whereas other non-classifier languages may lack other types of classifiers.

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