Numeral Classifiers in Chinese : The Syntax-Semantics Interface
Chinese language Classifiers (Linguistics) Grammar, Comparative and general Sociolinguistics China sähkökirjat Language and languages Andere Sprachen FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY
De Gruyter Mouton
2013
EISBN 9783110289336
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.
