<p>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 contributi
Numeral Classifiers in Chinese: The Syntax-Semantics Interface
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- Publisher
- Mouton De Gruyter
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 327
- Series
- Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs
- Category
- Library
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