English Quasi-Numeral Classifiers: A Corpus-Based Cognitive-Typological Study

By Xu Zhang

As a corpus-based typological cognitive study of English binominal quantitative expressions based on English-Chinese comparison, the book discovers functional equivalents of Chinese numeral classifiers in English, i.e. 'Quasi-Numeral Classifiers' (QNCs) and unveils the categorisation process reflected by five cases of Dimensionality-based QNCs.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3034328184
• ISBN13: 9783034328180
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic P
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"