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