Numeral Classifiers in Chinese: The Syntax-Semantics Interface
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Main Author: Li, XuPing (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin De Gruyter 2013
Series:Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 250
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Online Access:DE-824
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Biographical note: Xuping Li, Center for the Study of Language and Cognition, Zhejiang University, China
Main description: 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
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (XV, 309 S.)
ISBN:9783110287639
9783110289336
9783110289343
DOI:10.1515/9783110289336

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