Numeral Classifiers in Chinese : : The Syntax-Semantics Interface / / XuPing Li.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Li, XuPing,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 250
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (309 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; Abbreviations --; Chapter 1: Introduction --; Part I: The debate on a count/mass distinction in Chinese --; Chapter 2: Defining classifiers --; Chapter 3: The count/mass distinction in Chinese revisited --; Chapter 4: Natural atomicity --; Chapter 5: Chinese bare nouns --; Part II: Functions of classifiers: counting and measuring --; Chapter 6: Counting and measure functions of classifiers --; Chapter 7: Adjectival modification in classifier phrases: pre-classifier adjectives --; Chapter 8: Modification marker de in classifier phrases --; Part III: Definiteness in classifier languages --; Chapter 9: Definite classifiers in southern Chinese languages --; Chapter 10: Definite classifiers and their modifiers --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110289336; 9783110649772; 9783110238570; 9783110238457; 9783110636970; 9783110742961; 9783110317350; 9783110317244; 9783110317237
• ISSN: 1861-4302
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110289336
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: 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 to formal Chinese linguistics, and to the understanding of grammatical properties of nominal phrases in Chinese and East Asian languages.