[Lexicog] Measure words

[Mike Maxwell]

John Roberts wrote:
> Kenneth Hill wrote:
>
>>What Tommaso is interested in is covered under the label "classifiers" in
>>the linguistics literature. I suspect a internet search with that label
>>would prove useful.
>>
> You can find many sites with "noun classifier".

There are also numeral classifiers, which are similar but
different :-).  Numeral classifiers are common in Mayan
languages, and for all I know elsewhere also.  I don't know
which Chinese has, or whether it's somewhere in between.
--
	Mike Maxwell
	Linguistic Data Consortium
	maxwell at ldc.upenn.edu


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