Isbn: 9780367597740 - partition and quantity: numeral classifiers, measurement, and partitive constructions in mandarin chinese (routledge studies in chinese linguistics) (5 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Seiten: 246 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Partition and Quantity: Numeral Classifiers, Measurement, and Partitive Constructions in Mandarin Chinese presents an in-depth investigation into the semantic and syntactic properties of Chinese classifiers and conducts a comprehensive examination on the use of different quantity constructions in Chinese. This book echoes a rapid development in the past decades in Chinese linguistics research within the generative framework on Chinese classifier phrases, an area that has emerged as one of the most cutting-edge themes in the field of Chinese linguistics. The book on the one hand offers a closer scrutiny on empirical data and revisits some long-lasting research problems, such as the semantic factor bearing on the formation of Chinese numeral classifier constructions, the (non-)licensing of the linker de (¿) in between the numeral classifier and the noun, and the conditions regulating the use of pre-classifier adjectives. On the other hand, particular attention is paid to the issues that have been less studied or gone unnoticed in previous studies, including a (more) fine-grained subcategorization of Chinese measurement constructions, the multiple grammatical roles played by the marker de (¿) in different numeral classifier constructions, the formation and derivation of Chinese partitive constructions, etc.…