Numeral classifiers in Chinese : the syntax-semantics interface

Numeral classifiers in Chinese : the syntax-semantics interface / by XuPing Li.

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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Main Author: Li, XuPing (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, 2013.
Series:Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 250.
Subjects:
Chinese language > Quantifiers.
Chinese language > Grammar.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Quantifiers.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Number.
Sociolinguistics > China.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Southeast Asian Languages.
Chinese language > Grammar
Chinese language > Quantifiers
Grammar, Comparative and general > Number
Grammar, Comparative and general > Quantifiers
Language and languages
Sociolinguistics
Chinesisch
Numerale
Klassifikator > Linguistik
Syntax
Semantik
China > Languages.
China
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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.
Item Description:Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral - Ramat-Gan) under the title: On the semantics of classifiers in Chinese.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiii, 309 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9783110289336
3110289334
ISSN:1861-4302 ;
Language:English.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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