Numeral Classifiers in Chinese

The Syntax-Semantics Interface

von XuPing Li

309 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This book studies the syntax and semantics of numeral classifiers in Mandarin and other Chinese languages. It explores how Chinese classifiers are semantically interpreted in syntactic contexts and how semantic functions of classifiers are realized at the syntactic level. The book is a contribution to formal Chinese linguistics, and to the understanding of grammatical properties of nominal phrases in Chinese and East Asian languages.

• Reihe: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]
• Themen: Sprache und Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik Semantik, Diskursanalyse, Stilistik
• ISBN: 9783110287639
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 19.08.2013
• Größe: 23 x 15.5 cm
• Verlag: de Gruyter Mouton