A Note on the Syntax and Semantics of Chinese Classifiers

• 발행기관: 한국생성문법학회
• 저자명: Michael Jonathan Mathew Barrie Tianyu Zhao
• 간행물 정보: 『생성문법연구』제35권 제2호, 253~273쪽, 전체 21쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 언어학
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• 발행일자: 2025.05.31

국문 초록

We examine the structure of classifier constructions in Mandarin Chinese in light of Little et al.’s (2022) proposal on the semantics of two kinds of classifier constructions and Zhang's (2011, 2013) analysis of classifiers in Chinese. Little et al. propose that classifiers either compose first with nouns (classifiers-for-nouns) or compose first with numerals (cllassifiers-for-numeruals). The semantic denotation of numerals is different in both cases. Zhang proposes that Chinese has both structures. Taking both proposals at face valve would require us to assume that numerals are listed twice in the lexicon in Chinese (once for each denotation in Little et al.’s models). We critically examine Zhang's diagnostics and conclude that Chinese has only the classifier-for-nouns structure. A tentative semantic analysis is provided.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Background

3. Previous Research on Chinese Classifiers

4. Diagnosing the Constituency of #-CL-N

5. Discussion

6. Conclusion

References

키워드

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