Numeral Classifiers and Classifier Languages

Chinese, Japanese, and Korean
Herausgeber: Lee, Chungmin; Yi, Byeong-Uk; Kim, Young-Wha

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Produktbeschreibung

Focussing mainly on classifiers, Numeral Classifier and Classifier Languages offers a deep investigation of the three major classifier languages: Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. It provides detailed discussions well supported by empirical evidence and corpus analyses.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9781138054974
• ISBN-10: 1138054976
• Artikelnr.: 58565445

Autorenporträt

Chungmin Lee is Professor Emeritus it the Department of Linguistics at Seoul National University and a member of National Academy of Sciences, the Republic of Korea. Young-Wha Kim is Professor Emeritus in the Department of English Language & Literature at Hallym University in the Republic of Korea. Byeong-uk Yi is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto in Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter I: Numeral Classifiers and Diversity of Classifier Systems
Chapter II: Taxonomy of Numeral Classifiers:
A Formal Semantic Proposal
Chapter III: Japanese Semantics and the Mass/Count DistinctionChapter IV: A
Continuum-Based Approach to the Count-Mass Distinction in Korean
Chapter V: Anti-Generic (Existential) and Distributive Nature of
NumCL-Marking
Chapter VI: Classifiers, Articles, and Bare Nominals
Chapter VII: Japanese Numeral Quantifiers that Count Events
Chapter VIII: How Classifiers Affect the Mental Representation of Entities
Chapter IX: Descriptive Function of Numeral Classifiers: A Corpus Based
Analysis of Numeral Classifiers in Korean