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Classifier structures in Mandarin Chinese / / by Niina Ning Zhang



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Autore: Zhang Niina Ning Visualizza persona
Titolo: Classifier structures in Mandarin Chinese / / by Niina Ning Zhang Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berlin, : De Gruyter Mouton, is a Division of Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co, KG, 2013
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (331 p.)
Disciplina: 495.15
Soggetto topico: Chinese language - English
Chinese language - Simplified characters
Mandarin dialects
Soggetto non controllato: Classifier Languages
Classifiers
Mandarin Chinese
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Classifiers and countability -- Chapter 3: Classifiers and quantifiers -- Chapter 4: Classifiers and plurality -- Chapter 5: The syntactic constituency of numeral expressions -- Chapter 6: The syntactic positions of classifiers -- Chapter 7: Noun-classifier compounds -- Chapter 8: Conclusions -- References -- Subject index -- Language index
Sommario/riassunto: This monograph addresses fundamental syntactic issues of classifier constructions, based on a thorough study of a typical classifier language, Mandarin Chinese. It shows that the contrast between count and mass is not binary. Instead, there are two independently attested features: Numerability, the ability of a noun to combine with a numeral directly, and Delimitability, the ability of a noun to be modified by a delimitive modifier, such as size, shape, or boundary modifier. Although all nouns in Chinese are non-count nouns, there is still a mass/non-mass contrast, with mass nouns selected by individuating classifiers and non-mass nouns selected by individual classifiers. Some languages have the counterparts of Chinese individuating classifiers only, some languages have the counterparts of Chinese individual classifiers only, and some other languages have no counterpart of either individual or individuating classifiers of Chinese. The book also reports that unit plurality can be expressed by reduplicative classifiers in the language. Moreover, for the constituency of a numeral expression, an individual, individuating, or kind classifier combines with the noun first and then the numeral is integrated; but a partitive or collective classifier, like a measure word, combines with the numeral first, before the noun is integrated into the whole nominal structure. Furthermore, the book identifies the syntactic positions of various uses of classifiers in the language. A classifier is at a functional head position that has a dependency with a numeral, or a position that has a dependency with a generic or existential quantifier, or a position that represents the singular-plural contrast, or a position that licenses a delimitive modifier when the classifier occurs in a compound.
Titolo autorizzato: Classifier structures in Mandarin Chinese  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 3-11-048805-1
3-11-030499-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910810098803321
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