ON CHINESE ORDINAL CONSTRUCTIONS
A Chinese ordinal construction in the form [di + Num + Cl + N] is ambiguous between a definite construal and an indefinite quantity construal. The morpheme di heads a DP, and the two readings of the ordinal expression can be attributed to the lexical ambiguity of the morpheme di. On the one hand, if...
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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/volume9-1/9.1-3Tsai.pdf |