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Chinese Classifiers and Count Nouns
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- Issue Date
- 2009
- Citation
- Journal of Cognitive Science, Vol.10 No.2, pp. 209-226
- Keywords
- classifier ; count noun ; mass noun hypothesis ; number ; quantity ; quantifier ; measure word
- Abstract
- Many linguists, philosophers, and anthropologists hold that classifier languages,
including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Thai, have no count nouns,
and that all their common nouns are mass nouns. This paper argues that Chinese
draws a syntactic, as well as semantic, distinction between mass and count
nouns, and suggests how the approach taken to clarify the distinction can be
extended to other classifier languages.
- ISSN
- 1598-2327
- Language
- English
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