27.4505, Books: Classifier Structures in Mandarin Chinese: Zhang

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Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2016 11:45:45
From: Nora Voß [nora.voss at degruyter.com]
Subject: Classifier Structures in Mandarin Chinese: Zhang

Title: Classifier Structures in Mandarin Chinese 
Series Title: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]  

Publication Year: 2016 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   http://www.degruyter.com/mouton

Book URL: http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/203858?rskey=Cr9UnO&format=B 

Author: Niina Ning Zhang

Paperback: ISBN:  9783110488050 Pages: 319 Price: U.S. $ 19.95

Abstract:

Editor’s Note: This is a new edition of a previously announced book.

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.

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): Chinese, Mandarin (cmn)

Written In: English  (eng)

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http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=105857

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