Numeral Classifiers in Chinese: The Syntax-Semantics Interface

By Xuping Li

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110287633
• ISBN13: 9783110287639
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary