Classifiers and Determiner-less Languages: The Case of Thai

This thesis provides a syntactic and semantic analysis of bare arguments and classifiers in Thai as well as accounting for its nominal word order. Adopting the Nominal Mapping Parameter (Chierchia 1998), it is argued that Thai nouns are names of kinds. Kinds are of type <s,e>, which are allowe...

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Main Author: Piriyawiboon, Nattaya
Other Authors: Massam, Diane
Language:en_ca
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/26223