Numeral Classifiers And Classifier Languages

Author : Chungmin Lee,Young-Wha Kim,Byeong-Uk Yi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351679602

Get Book

Numeral Classifiers and Classifier Languages by Chungmin Lee,Young-Wha Kim,Byeong-Uk Yi Pdf

Focusing mainly on classifiers, Numeral Classifiers and Classifier Languages offers a deep investigation of three major classifier languages: Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. This book provides detailed discussions well supported by empirical evidence and corpus analyses. Theoretical hypotheses regarding differences and commonalities between numeral classifier languages and other mainly article languages are tested to seek universals or typological characteristics. The essays collected here from leading scholars in different fields promise to be greatly significant in the field of linguistics for several reasons. First, it targets three representative classifier languages in Asia. It also provides critical clues and suggests solutions to syntactic, semantic, psychological, and philosophical issues about classifier constructions. Finally, it addresses ensuing debates that may arise in the field of linguistics in general and neighboring inter-disciplinary areas. This book should be of great interest to advanced students and scholars of East Asian languages.

Author : Gunter Senft
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2000-08-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521770750

Get Book

Systems of Nominal Classification by Gunter Senft Pdf

A major linguistic study of nominal classification systems across a variety of languages, first published in 2000.

Author : XuPing Li
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110289336

Get Book

Numeral Classifiers in Chinese by XuPing Li Pdf

This book studies the syntax and semantics of numeral classifiers in Mandarin and other Chinese languages. It explores how Chinese classifiers are semantically interpreted in syntactic contexts and how semantic functions of classifiers are realized at the syntactic level. The book is a contribution to formal Chinese linguistics, and to the understanding of grammatical properties of nominal phrases in Chinese and East Asian languages.

Author : Heather Winskel,Prakash Padakannaya
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781107017764

Get Book

South and Southeast Asian Psycholinguistics by Heather Winskel,Prakash Padakannaya Pdf

This groundbreaking volume explores the languages of South and Southeast Asia, which differ significantly from Indo-European languages in their grammar, lexicon and spoken forms. This book raises new questions in psycholinguistics and enables readers to re-evaluate previous models in light of new research.

Author : Pamela Downing
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027226143

Get Book

Numeral Classifier Systems by Pamela Downing Pdf

Numeral Classifier Systems considers the functional significance of the Japanese numeral system, its conclusions based on a corpus of 500 uses of classifier constructions drawn from oral and written Japanese texts. Interestingly, although the Japanese system appears to conform at least superficially to universalistic predictions about its semantic structure, this study reports that in actual usage, the semantic role of classifiers is slight — only very rarely do they carry any lexical information unavailable from the context or the noun with which the classifier occurs. It does appear, however, that the system has an important role to play in providing pronoun-like anaphoric elements and in marking pragmatic distinctions such as the individuatedness of referents and the newness of numerical information. For these reasons, the classifier system is deeply involved in a number of subsystems of Japanese grammar, and the demise of the system (sometimes rumored to be impending) would have substantial implications for the structure of the language as a whole.

Author : Pamela A. Downing
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1996-09-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027276117

Get Book

Numeral Classifier Systems by Pamela A. Downing Pdf

Numeral Classifier Systems considers the functional significance of the Japanese numeral system, its conclusions based on a corpus of 500 uses of classifier constructions drawn from oral and written Japanese texts. Interestingly, although the Japanese system appears to conform at least superficially to universalistic predictions about its semantic structure, this study reports that in actual usage, the semantic role of classifiers is slight — only very rarely do they carry any lexical information unavailable from the context or the noun with which the classifier occurs. It does appear, however, that the system has an important role to play in providing pronoun-like anaphoric elements and in marking pragmatic distinctions such as the individuatedness of referents and the newness of numerical information. For these reasons, the classifier system is deeply involved in a number of subsystems of Japanese grammar, and the demise of the system (sometimes rumored to be impending) would have substantial implications for the structure of the language as a whole.

Author : 水口志乃扶
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2004-01
Category : Classifiers (Linguistics)
ISBN : 4775400584

Get Book

Individuation in Numeral Classifier Languages by 水口志乃扶 Pdf

Author : Kasumi Yamamoto
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110914955

Get Book

The Acquisition of Numeral Classifiers by Kasumi Yamamoto Pdf

The book is about the numeral classifier system and the acquisition of Japanese classifiers by Japanese children. It consists of two parts. First, it provides a general typological characterization of numeral classifier phrases and discusses problems in determining what constitutes the nature of classifiers. It also discusses the semantic properties of numeral classifiers based on an analysis of four languages from four different language families. Second, it examines the acquisitions of Japanese numeral classifiers by Japanese preschool children, ages 3 to 6, with a primary emphasis on the development of comprehension. The importance of the study is that it reveals that young children have a much greater sensitivity to the conceptual underpinnings of the numeral classifier system than was previously considered to be the case. The research results also provide a converging source of evidence that young children often come to initially grasp the structure of the world in ways that are better understood in cognitive than perceptual terms. The implications will contribute to not only the area of language acquisition but also categorization and conceptual development.

Author : Jing Jin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317294962

Get Book

Partition and Quantity by Jing Jin Pdf

Partition and Quantity: Numeral Classifiers, Measurement, and Partitive Constructions in Mandarin Chinese presents an in-depth investigation into the semantic and syntactic properties of Chinese classifiers and conducts a comprehensive examination on the use of different quantity constructions in Chinese. This book echoes a rapid development in the past decades in Chinese linguistics research within the generative framework on Chinese classifier phrases, an area that has emerged as one of the most cutting-edge themes in the field of Chinese linguistics. The book on the one hand offers a closer scrutiny on empirical data and revisits some long-lasting research problems, such as the semantic factor bearing on the formation of Chinese numeral classifier constructions, the (non-)licensing of the linker de (的) in between the numeral classifier and the noun, and the conditions regulating the use of pre-classifier adjectives. On the other hand, particular attention is paid to the issues that have been less studied or gone unnoticed in previous studies, including a (more) fine-grained subcategorization of Chinese measurement constructions, the multiple grammatical roles played by the marker de (的) in different numeral classifier constructions, the formation and derivation of Chinese partitive constructions, etc.

Author : Niina Ning Zhang
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110304992

Get Book

Classifier Structures in Mandarin Chinese by Niina Ning Zhang Pdf

This monograph addresses fundamental syntactic issues of classifier constructions, based on a thorough study of a typical classifier language, Mandarin Chinese. It shows that the contrast between count and mass is not binary. Instead, there are two independently attested features: Numerability, the ability of a noun to combine with a numeral directly, and Delimitability, the ability of a noun to be modified by a delimitive modifier, such as size, shape, or boundary modifier. Although all nouns in Chinese are non-count nouns, there is still a mass/non-mass contrast, with mass nouns selected by individuating classifiers and non-mass nouns selected by individual classifiers. Some languages have the counterparts of Chinese individuating classifiers only, some languages have the counterparts of Chinese individual classifiers only, and some other languages have no counterpart of either individual or individuating classifiers of Chinese. The book also reports that unit plurality can be expressed by reduplicative classifiers in the language. Moreover, for the constituency of a numeral expression, an individual, individuating, or kind classifier combines with the noun first and then the numeral is integrated; but a partitive or collective classifier, like a measure word, combines with the numeral first, before the noun is integrated into the whole nominal structure. Furthermore, the book identifies the syntactic positions of various uses of classifiers in the language. A classifier is at a functional head position that has a dependency with a numeral, or a position that has a dependency with a generic or existential quantifier, or a position that represents the singular-plural contrast, or a position that licenses a delimitive modifier when the classifier occurs in a compound.

Author : Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald,Elena I. Mihas
Publisher : Explorations in Linguistic Typ
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198842019

Get Book

Genders and Classifiers by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald,Elena I. Mihas Pdf

This volume offers a comprehensive account of the typology of noun classification across the world's languages. Every language has some means of categorizing objects into humans, or animates, or by their shape, form, size, and function. The most widespread are linguistic genders - grammatical classes of nouns based on core semantic properties such as sex (female and male), animacy, humanness, and also shape and size. Classifiers of several types also serve to categorize entities. Numeral classifiers occur with number words, possessive classifiers appear in the expressions of possession, and verbal classifiers are used on a verb, categorizing its argument. These varied sorts of genders and classifiers can also occur together. This volume elaborates on the expression, usage, history, and meanings of noun categorization devices, exploring their various facets across the languages of South America and Asia, which are known for the diversity of their noun categorization. The volume begins with a typological introduction that outlines the types of noun categorization devices and their expression, scope, functions, and development, as well as sociocultural aspects of their use. The following nine chapters provide in-depth studies of genders and classifiers of different types in a range of South American and Asian languages and language families, including Arawak languages, Zamucoan, Hmong, and Japanese.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004436701

Get Book

Evidentials and Modals by Anonim Pdf

Evidentials and Modals offers an in-depth account of the meaning of grammatical elements related to evidentiality and modality, focusing on both theoretical and typological perspectives, ranging from Korean, Japanese, American Indian, Turkish and African languages.

Author : Karen Emmorey
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003-04-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135632960

Get Book

Perspectives on Classifier Constructions in Sign Languages by Karen Emmorey Pdf

This text is the result of work discussed and presented at the Workshop on Classifier Constructions. It aims to bring to light issues related to the study of classifier constructions and to present contemporary linguistic and psycholinguistic analyses of these constructions.

Author : Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015050314676

Get Book

Classifiers by Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd Pdf

This text offers a cross-linguistic account of classifiers. Its range of exemplification includes major and minor languages from every continent and several of the examples are from the author's own fieldwork.

Author : Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 019926466X

Get Book

Classifiers by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald Pdf

Almost all languages have some ways of categorizing nouns. Languages of South-East Asia have classifiers used with numerals, while most Indo-European languages have two or three genders. They can have a similar meaning and one can develop from the other. This book provides a comprehensive and original analysis of noun categorization devices all over the world. It will interest typologists, those working in the fields of morphosyntactic variation and lexical semantics, as well as anthropologists and all other scholars interested in the mechanisms of human cognition.