Plurality and classifiers across languages in China /
Plural marking, numeral classifiers and reduplication constitute the main means of quantification marking in the domain of grammar. The contributions in this book focus onthe typological correlation between the three different strategies for quantification, as well as on some general issues. A bette...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter Mouton,
2013.
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Colección: | Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs TiLSM.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; Introduction: Plurality and Classifiers across languages of China; I Correlations between different types of quantification; 1 Numeral classifiers with plural marking. A challenge to Greenberg; 2 Reduplication in languages: A case study of languages of China; II Numeral classifiers and their diachronic development; 3 The Syntax and prosody of classifiers in Classical Chinese; 4 Individuating classifiers in Early Southern Min (14th-19th centuries); III The expression of plurality; 5 Plurality and the subclassification of Nouns in Classical Chinese.
- 6 Number in Chinese: a diachronic study of zhu? From Han to Wei Jin Nanbeichao Chinese7 Bu-tong 'different' and nominal plurality in Mandarin Chinese; 8 Plurality in the pronominal paradigms of Bai dialects; 9 Frequentative aspect and pluractionality in Nuosu Yi; 10 Quantificational structures in three-year-old Chinese-speaking children; Author index; Subject index.