Plurality and classifiers across languages in China [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Dan Xu

• Pubblicazione: Berlin, : De Gruyter Mouton, 2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (296 p.)
• Disciplina: 495.1/5
• Soggetto topico: Chinese language - Quantifiers; Chinese language - Grammar; Grammar, Comparative and general - Quantifiers; Grammar, Comparative and general - Number; Sociolinguistics - China
• Soggetto geografico: China Languages
• Soggetto non controllato: Chinese Languages; Grammaticalization; Language Contact; Linguistic Typology; Non-Han Languages
• Altri autori: XuDan
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Introduction Plurality and Classifiers across languages of China / Xu, Dan -- I Correlations between different types of quantification -- 1 Numeral classifiers with plural marking. A challenge to Greenberg / Bisang, Walter -- 2 Reduplication in languages: A case study of languages of China / Xu, Dan -- II Numeral classifiers and their diachronic development -- 3 The Syntax and prosody of classifiers in Classical Chinese / Feng, Shengli -- 4 Individuating classifiers in Early Southern Min (14th-19th centuries) / Jang-Ling, Lin / Peyraube, Alain -- III The expression of plurality -- 5 Plurality and the subclassification of Nouns in Classical Chinese / Harbsmeier, Christoph -- 6 Number in Chinese: a diachronic study of zhū 諸 from Han to Wei Jin Nanbeichao Chinese / Meisterernst, Barbara -- 7 Bu-tong 'different' and nominal plurality in Mandarin Chinese / Paris, Marie-Claude -- 8 Plurality in the pronominal paradigms of Bai dialects / Fu, Jingqi -- 9 Frequentative aspect and pluractionality in Nuosu Yi / Liu, Hongyong / Gu, Yang -- 10 Quantificational structures in three-yearold Chinese-speaking children / Hun-Tak Lee, Thomas -- Author index -- Subject index
• Sommario/riassunto: Plural marking, numeral classifiers and reduplication constitute the main means of quantification marking in the domain of grammar. The contributions in this book focus on the typological correlation between the three different strategies for quantification, as well as on some general issues. A better understanding of the quantification strategies in the languages of China will enrich our comprehension of human language and thought. The book is expected to have an impact on the study of linguistic typology, language contact, and patterns of the evolution.
• Titolo autorizzato: Plurality and classifiers across languages in China
• ISBN: 3-11-048534-6; 3-11-029398-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910821818203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Trends in linguistics. . -Studies and monographs ; ; 255.