THE CONSTITUENCY OF CLASSIFIER CONSTRUCTIONS IN MANDARIN CHINESE

This paper examines the constituency of the construction that contains three elements: a numeral, a word that encodes a counting unit, such as a classifier or measure word, and a noun in Mandarin Chinese. It identifies three structures: a left-branching structure for container measures, standard mea...

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Main Author: Niina Ning Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Crane Publishing Co 2011-06-01
Series:Taiwan Journal of Linguistics
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Online Access:http://tjl.nccu.edu.tw/volume9-1/9.1-1Zhang.pdf