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Numeral classifiers in Chinese : the syntax-semantics interface, by XuPing Li
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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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiii, 309 pages)
- Note
- Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral - Ramat-Gan) under the title: On the semantics of classifiers in Chinese
- Contents
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- Preface; Abbreviations; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1. Issues; 1.1. Issue 1: the debate on a count/mass distinction in Mandarin; 1.2. Issue 2: counting and measuring functions of classifiers; 1.3. Issue 3: definiteness in classifier languages; 2. Data and source; 3. Structure of the book; Part I: The debate on a count/mass distinction in Chinese; Chapter 2: Defing classifiers; 1. Chinese classifiers: an illustration; 1.1. Identifying classifiers syntactically; 1.2. Chinese classifiers: a heuristic classification; 2. Classifiers as a closed class; 3. Classifiers without "descriptive content."
- 3.1. Classifiers are not nominal3.2. Classifiers have no 'descriptive content'; 4. Classifiers are complement-taking; 5. Classifiers as stressless; 6. Classifiers in English: a contrastive look; 7. Conclusions; Chapter 3: The count/mass distinction in Chinese revisited; 1. Introduction; 2. Syntactic distinction between count and mass classifiers; 2.1. Introduction to count/mass classifiers; 2.2. Lexical/functional distinction of classifiers; 2.3. Two syntactic diagnostics; 3. Possibility of pre-classifier adjectival modification; 3.1. Adjectives before count and mass classifiers
- 3.2. Two constraints on pre-classifier adjectives4. Optionality of post-classifier de; 5. Conclusions; Chapter 4: Natural atomicity; 1. Introduction; 2. Countability and individuation; 3. A lexical distinction between mass and count nouns; 4. Individual, stuff and partial-object readings; 5. Natural atomicity as a grammatically relevant phenomenon; 6. Conclusions; Chapter 5: Chinese bare nouns; 1. Introduction; 2. The Krifka-Chierchia hypothesis; 3. Bare nouns as kinds; 3.1. Strong kind-inducing contexts; 3.2. Appositives; 3.3. Scope with respect to opacity
- 3.4. Scope with respect to quantifiers4. Semantics of bare nouns; 5. Bare predication; 5.1. Some analyses of copula clauses; 5.1.1. Ambiguous BEs; 5.1.2. Unambiguous BE; 5.2. Post-copula bare nouns as predicates of individuals; 5.3. Post-copula bare nouns as predicates of subkinds; 5.4. Post-copula bare nouns as predicates of kinds; 6. Definite bare nouns; 6.1. Topic-hood and definiteness; 6.2. Definite bare nouns in object positions; 6.3. Semantics of definite bare nouns; Part II: Functions of classifiers: counting and measuring; Chapter 6: Counting and measure functions of classifiers
- 1. Introduction2. Counting and measuring readings: a crosslinguistic perspective; 2.1. Introducing counting and measuring readings; 2.2. Structures for counting and measuring readings; 3. Ambiguity of container classifiers in Chinese; 3.1. Counting and measuring readings for Chinese container classifiers; 3.2. The syntax of counting and measuring readings; 4. A feature analysis of classifiers: [±Counting, ±Measuring]; 4.1. Four types of classifiers; 4.1.1. Type 1: [+C, -M] classifiers; 4.1.2. Type 2: [-C, +M] classifiers; 4.1.3. Type 3: [+C, +M] classifiers
- Isbn
- 9783110289336
- Label
- Numeral classifiers in Chinese : the syntax-semantics interface
- Title
- Numeral classifiers in Chinese
- Title remainder
- the syntax-semantics interface
- Statement of responsibility
- by XuPing Li
- Subject
-
- China -- Languages
- Chinese language -- Grammar
- Chinese language -- Grammar
- Chinese language -- Quantifiers
- Chinese language -- Quantifiers
- Chinesisch
- Electronic book
- Electronic books
- Electronic books
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Southeast Asian Languages
- Grammar, Comparative and general -- Number
- Grammar, Comparative and general -- Number
- Grammar, Comparative and general -- Quantifiers
- Grammar, Comparative and general -- Quantifiers
- Klassifikator
- Language and languages
- Numerale
- Semantik
- Sociolinguistics
- Sociolinguistics -- China
- Syntax
- China
- Language
- eng
- 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
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- N$T
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Li, XuPing
- Dewey number
- 495.1/5
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Language note
- English
- LC call number
- PL1279
- LC item number
- .L5 2013eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- dictionaries
- bibliography
- theses
- Series statement
- Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs,
- Series volume
- 250
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Chinese language
- Chinese language
- Grammar, Comparative and general
- Grammar, Comparative and general
- Sociolinguistics
- China
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY
- Chinese language
- Chinese language
- Grammar, Comparative and general
- Grammar, Comparative and general
- Language and languages
- Sociolinguistics
- China
- Chinesisch
- Numerale
- Klassifikator
- Syntax
- Semantik
- Label
- Numeral classifiers in Chinese : the syntax-semantics interface, by XuPing Li
- Note
- Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral - Ramat-Gan) under the title: On the semantics of classifiers in Chinese
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- online resource
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- Contents
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- Preface; Abbreviations; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1. Issues; 1.1. Issue 1: the debate on a count/mass distinction in Mandarin; 1.2. Issue 2: counting and measuring functions of classifiers; 1.3. Issue 3: definiteness in classifier languages; 2. Data and source; 3. Structure of the book; Part I: The debate on a count/mass distinction in Chinese; Chapter 2: Defing classifiers; 1. Chinese classifiers: an illustration; 1.1. Identifying classifiers syntactically; 1.2. Chinese classifiers: a heuristic classification; 2. Classifiers as a closed class; 3. Classifiers without "descriptive content."
- 3.1. Classifiers are not nominal3.2. Classifiers have no 'descriptive content'; 4. Classifiers are complement-taking; 5. Classifiers as stressless; 6. Classifiers in English: a contrastive look; 7. Conclusions; Chapter 3: The count/mass distinction in Chinese revisited; 1. Introduction; 2. Syntactic distinction between count and mass classifiers; 2.1. Introduction to count/mass classifiers; 2.2. Lexical/functional distinction of classifiers; 2.3. Two syntactic diagnostics; 3. Possibility of pre-classifier adjectival modification; 3.1. Adjectives before count and mass classifiers
- 3.2. Two constraints on pre-classifier adjectives4. Optionality of post-classifier de; 5. Conclusions; Chapter 4: Natural atomicity; 1. Introduction; 2. Countability and individuation; 3. A lexical distinction between mass and count nouns; 4. Individual, stuff and partial-object readings; 5. Natural atomicity as a grammatically relevant phenomenon; 6. Conclusions; Chapter 5: Chinese bare nouns; 1. Introduction; 2. The Krifka-Chierchia hypothesis; 3. Bare nouns as kinds; 3.1. Strong kind-inducing contexts; 3.2. Appositives; 3.3. Scope with respect to opacity
- 3.4. Scope with respect to quantifiers4. Semantics of bare nouns; 5. Bare predication; 5.1. Some analyses of copula clauses; 5.1.1. Ambiguous BEs; 5.1.2. Unambiguous BE; 5.2. Post-copula bare nouns as predicates of individuals; 5.3. Post-copula bare nouns as predicates of subkinds; 5.4. Post-copula bare nouns as predicates of kinds; 6. Definite bare nouns; 6.1. Topic-hood and definiteness; 6.2. Definite bare nouns in object positions; 6.3. Semantics of definite bare nouns; Part II: Functions of classifiers: counting and measuring; Chapter 6: Counting and measure functions of classifiers
- 1. Introduction2. Counting and measuring readings: a crosslinguistic perspective; 2.1. Introducing counting and measuring readings; 2.2. Structures for counting and measuring readings; 3. Ambiguity of container classifiers in Chinese; 3.1. Counting and measuring readings for Chinese container classifiers; 3.2. The syntax of counting and measuring readings; 4. A feature analysis of classifiers: [±Counting, ±Measuring]; 4.1. Four types of classifiers; 4.1.1. Type 1: [+C, -M] classifiers; 4.1.2. Type 2: [-C, +M] classifiers; 4.1.3. Type 3: [+C, +M] classifiers
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- Numeral classifiers in Chinese : the syntax-semantics interface, by XuPing Li
- Note
- Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral - Ramat-Gan) under the title: On the semantics of classifiers in Chinese
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
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- Contents
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- Preface; Abbreviations; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1. Issues; 1.1. Issue 1: the debate on a count/mass distinction in Mandarin; 1.2. Issue 2: counting and measuring functions of classifiers; 1.3. Issue 3: definiteness in classifier languages; 2. Data and source; 3. Structure of the book; Part I: The debate on a count/mass distinction in Chinese; Chapter 2: Defing classifiers; 1. Chinese classifiers: an illustration; 1.1. Identifying classifiers syntactically; 1.2. Chinese classifiers: a heuristic classification; 2. Classifiers as a closed class; 3. Classifiers without "descriptive content."
- 3.1. Classifiers are not nominal3.2. Classifiers have no 'descriptive content'; 4. Classifiers are complement-taking; 5. Classifiers as stressless; 6. Classifiers in English: a contrastive look; 7. Conclusions; Chapter 3: The count/mass distinction in Chinese revisited; 1. Introduction; 2. Syntactic distinction between count and mass classifiers; 2.1. Introduction to count/mass classifiers; 2.2. Lexical/functional distinction of classifiers; 2.3. Two syntactic diagnostics; 3. Possibility of pre-classifier adjectival modification; 3.1. Adjectives before count and mass classifiers
- 3.2. Two constraints on pre-classifier adjectives4. Optionality of post-classifier de; 5. Conclusions; Chapter 4: Natural atomicity; 1. Introduction; 2. Countability and individuation; 3. A lexical distinction between mass and count nouns; 4. Individual, stuff and partial-object readings; 5. Natural atomicity as a grammatically relevant phenomenon; 6. Conclusions; Chapter 5: Chinese bare nouns; 1. Introduction; 2. The Krifka-Chierchia hypothesis; 3. Bare nouns as kinds; 3.1. Strong kind-inducing contexts; 3.2. Appositives; 3.3. Scope with respect to opacity
- 3.4. Scope with respect to quantifiers4. Semantics of bare nouns; 5. Bare predication; 5.1. Some analyses of copula clauses; 5.1.1. Ambiguous BEs; 5.1.2. Unambiguous BE; 5.2. Post-copula bare nouns as predicates of individuals; 5.3. Post-copula bare nouns as predicates of subkinds; 5.4. Post-copula bare nouns as predicates of kinds; 6. Definite bare nouns; 6.1. Topic-hood and definiteness; 6.2. Definite bare nouns in object positions; 6.3. Semantics of definite bare nouns; Part II: Functions of classifiers: counting and measuring; Chapter 6: Counting and measure functions of classifiers
- 1. Introduction2. Counting and measuring readings: a crosslinguistic perspective; 2.1. Introducing counting and measuring readings; 2.2. Structures for counting and measuring readings; 3. Ambiguity of container classifiers in Chinese; 3.1. Counting and measuring readings for Chinese container classifiers; 3.2. The syntax of counting and measuring readings; 4. A feature analysis of classifiers: [±Counting, ±Measuring]; 4.1. Four types of classifiers; 4.1.1. Type 1: [+C, -M] classifiers; 4.1.2. Type 2: [-C, +M] classifiers; 4.1.3. Type 3: [+C, +M] classifiers
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- 9783110289336
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Subject
- China -- Languages
- Chinese language -- Grammar
- Chinese language -- Grammar
- Chinese language -- Quantifiers
- Chinese language -- Quantifiers
- Chinesisch
- Electronic book
- Electronic books
- Electronic books
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Southeast Asian Languages
- Grammar, Comparative and general -- Number
- Grammar, Comparative and general -- Number
- Grammar, Comparative and general -- Quantifiers
- Grammar, Comparative and general -- Quantifiers
- Klassifikator
- Language and languages
- Numerale
- Semantik
- Sociolinguistics
- Sociolinguistics -- China
- Syntax
- China
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