30.788, Books: Noun Classifiers: a View from Cantonese: Pacioni

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Subject: 30.788, Books: Noun Classifiers: a View from Cantonese: Pacioni

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Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 18:21:13
From: Ulrich Lueders [contact at lincom.eu]
Subject: Noun Classifiers: a View from Cantonese: Pacioni

 


Title: Noun Classifiers: a View from Cantonese 
Series Title: LINCOM Studies in Chinese Linguistics 11  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
	   http://www.lincom-shop.eu
	

Book URL: http://lincom-shop.eu/LSCHL-11-Noun-Classifiers-a-View-from-Cantonese/en 


Author: Patrizia Pacioni

Paperback: ISBN:  9783862889501 Pages: 211 Price: Europe EURO 78.80


Abstract:

This work provides a wide description of Cantonese noun classifiers
occurrences peculiar to Cantonese and not found in Mandarin. Namely, nouns and
classifiers [CL-N], the [ZOENG-CL-NV] construction, classifiers used in
possessive constructions [N-CL-N] and in relative clauses. It argues that
classifiers encode specificity based on a syntactic-semantic interface. A
four-way semantic distinction: [+/-individuation] and [+/-identification] is
mapped onto a Specificity Phrase [SpecifP]. Such [+/-individuation] and
[+/-identification] distinction can also capture occurrences of other nominal
modifiers in Cantonese like [DI-N] and [GE-N]. To further support such
specificity account, the second part of this work deals with occurrences where
classifiers are not found in Cantonese: bare nouns resulting in generic and
kind readings, non-restrictive relative clauses, and objects of verb-object
compounds. Finally, it discusses some apparent non-specific readings of [CLN]
combinations: occurrences where we can have either specific or non-specific
readings, despite the presence of a classifier. Such constructions occur in
contexts like modals, futures and conditionals that are opacity-triggering
contexts. These types of modals and tenses are known to affect the semantic
transparency of the relevant noun and to create opacity since they can set up
a mismatch between the knowledge of the speaker and the predication about
external reality.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): Chinese, Yue (yue)


Written In: English  (eng)

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