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| Title: | Unification of numeral classifiers and plural markers: Empirical facts and implications |
| Authors: | 何萬順
Her, One-Soon ; Chen, Yun-Ru |
| Contributors: | 語言所 |
| Date: | 2013.11 |
| Issue Date: | 2014-04-10 11:45:00 (UTC+8) |
| Abstract: | The use of an obligatory numeral classifier (C) on N in general does not co-occur with mandatory plural marking (PM) (Greenberg 1990[1972], Sanches and Slobin 1973). Borer (2005) and Her (2012a) take this generalization further and see Cs and PMs as the same category. This unification implies that C/PM are mutually exclusive on N. In this paper, we first provide a mathematical foundation for this unification, i.e., C/PM both function as a multiplicand with the precise value of 1 (Her 2012a), and then explore empirically to what extent C/PM’s complimentary distribution is borne out. We obtain from the WALS database a total of 22 languages with both Cs and PMs, including Mandarin, Japanese, and Vietnamese. Our survey finds C/PM co-occurring on N in 11 languages. We then set out to formally account for the unification of C/PM and explain its exceptions, taking Mandarin as an example, with a double-headed classifier construction. This study thus adds merit to the unification of C/PM and concludes with its impliction on a universal lexical count/mass distinction. |
| Relation: | 27th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information, and Computation, National Chengchi University, pp.22-24 |
| Data Type: | conference |
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| dc.contributor (Contributor) | 語言所 | en_US |
| dc.creator (Authors) | 何萬順 | zh_TW |
| dc.creator (Authors) | Her, One-Soon ; Chen, Yun-Ru | en_US |
| dc.date (Date) | 2013.11 | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-04-10 11:45:00 (UTC+8) | - |
| dc.date.available | 2014-04-10 11:45:00 (UTC+8) | - |
| dc.date.issued (Issue Date) | 2014-04-10 11:45:00 (UTC+8) | - |
| dc.identifier.uri (URI) | http://nccur.lib.nccu.edu.tw/handle/140.119/65249 | - |
| dc.description.abstract (Abstract) | The use of an obligatory numeral classifier (C) on N in general does not co-occur with mandatory plural marking (PM) (Greenberg 1990[1972], Sanches and Slobin 1973). Borer (2005) and Her (2012a) take this generalization further and see Cs and PMs as the same category. This unification implies that C/PM are mutually exclusive on N. In this paper, we first provide a mathematical foundation for this unification, i.e., C/PM both function as a multiplicand with the precise value of 1 (Her 2012a), and then explore empirically to what extent C/PM’s complimentary distribution is borne out. We obtain from the WALS database a total of 22 languages with both Cs and PMs, including Mandarin, Japanese, and Vietnamese. Our survey finds C/PM co-occurring on N in 11 languages. We then set out to formally account for the unification of C/PM and explain its exceptions, taking Mandarin as an example, with a double-headed classifier construction. This study thus adds merit to the unification of C/PM and concludes with its impliction on a universal lexical count/mass distinction. | en_US |
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| dc.language.iso | en_US | - |
| dc.relation (Relation) | 27th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information, and Computation, National Chengchi University, pp.22-24 | en_US |
| dc.title (Title) | Unification of numeral classifiers and plural markers: Empirical facts and implications | en_US |
| dc.type (Data Type) | conference | en |
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