Classifier Structures in Mandarin Chinese - Zhang, Niina Ning (De Gruyter, 2013)
5.3. Invalid arguments
Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Classifiers and countability; 2.1. Introduction; 2.2. Decomposing countability; 2.2.1. Identifying two new features syntagmatically; 2.2.2. Defining count and mass by the two features; 2.2.3. Attesting the two features in co-occurrence restrictions; 2.2.4. Attesting the two features in pronominalization; 2.2.5. Attesting the two features in shifts; 2.2.6. Numerability and number; 2.3. The two features in nouns; 2.3.1. Numerability of nouns; 2.3.2. Delimitability of nouns; 2.4. The two features in unit words
2.4.1. CLs and measure words2.4.2. Unit words that occur with [-Delimitable]; 2.4.3. Unit words that occur with [+Delimitable]; 2.4.4. Unit words that occur with [±Delimitable]; 2.4.5. The CL ge; 2.4.6. Unit words as unique Numerability bearers in Chinese; 2.4.7. Delimitability of unit words; 2.5. Reflections on the studies of countability; 2.5.1. What's new?; 2.5.2. The semantic approach to countability; 2.5.3. The morphological approach to countability; 2.5.4. The multi-criteria approach to countability; 2.5.5. Other non-binary analyses of countability; 2.5.6. Experimental perspective
2.6. Reflections on the studies of CLs in numeral expressions2.6.1. The syntactic foundations of the presence of CLs; 2.6.2. How special are the CLs of CL languages?; 2.6.3. The sortal-mensural contrast and CLs that do not classify; 2.6.4. The unreliability of the de and pre-CL adjective arguments; 2.6.5. Experimental perspective; 2.7. Chapter summary; Chapter 3: Classifiers and quantifiers; 3.1. Introduction; 3.2. Quantifiers that occur with a unit word; 3.3. Quantifiers that occur without a unit word; 3.4. The ambiguous cases; 3.5. Non-numeral uses of yi 'one' in nominals
3.5.1. G-YI: Yi as a generic quantifier3.5.2. E-YI: Yi as an existential quantifier; 3.5.3. M-YI: Yi as a maximal quantifier; 3.6. Chapter summary; Chapter 4: Classifiers and plurality; 4.1. Introduction; 4.1.1. Number in Mandarin Chinese?; 4.1.2. General number and optional number marking; 4.1.3. Abundant plural; 4.2. Unit plurality; 4.2.1. RUWs as unit-plurality markers; 4.2.2. The productivity; 4.2.3. RUWs, E-YI, and distributivity; 4.2.4. Definiteness and specificity of RUW nominals; 4.2.5. The interactions of numerals and number markers; 4.3. Unit singularity