Nouns are both mass and count: Evidence from unclassified nouns in adult and child Mandarin Chinese

This paper examines the interpretation of unclassified nouns in Mandarin Chinese from the perspective of three theoretical approaches to the mass-count distinction in Mandarin: a lexico-syntactic approach (Doetjes 1997; Cheng & Sybesma 1998), a syntax-driven approach (Borer 2005), and a hybr...

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Published in:	Glossa
Main Authors:	Jeannette Schaeffer, Jing Lin
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Open Library of Humanities 2018-04-01
Subjects:	child language acquisition classifier languages Mandarin Chinese mass-count distinction syntax-semantics interface unclassified nouns
Online Access:	https://www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/5022/