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| Counting and countability in classifier languages: evidence from Donglan Zhuang | |
| Li, Xuping1; Wei, Huan’gan2; Liu, Hongyong3 | |
| 2024 | |
| Source Publication | Journal of East Asian Linguistics
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| ISSN | 0925-8558 |
| Abstract | This article addresses the issue of how nominal countability is grammatically encoded and how the counting function is realized in classifier languages by investigating classifier phrases in Donglan Zhuang, a Tai-Kadai language. According to the prevailing individuation account, classifiers are required to individuate nouns, which can then be counted by numerals. Under this approach, countability and counting are conflated. Donglan Zhuang has two syntactically distinct types of classifiers, namely, numeral classifiers CL and noun classifiers CL. CL performs the counting/measuring function, comparable to the cardinality function proposed in Scontras (The semantics of measurement, Harvard University, Cambridge, 2014), and CL encodes syntactic countability by singling out sortal nouns from the mass domain, whereby sortal nouns are, meanwhile, turned into (taxonomic) kind terms. Noun classifiers in Donglan Zhuang pose a challenge to Chierchia’s (Nat Lang Semant 6(4):339–405, 1998) “bare argument hypothesis” and suggest that bare nouns in classifier languages are not uniform with respect to the [±argument] parametric setting. |
| Keyword | Countability Counting Noun classifiers Numeral classifiers |
| DOI | 10.1007/s10831-024-09276-y |
| URL | View the original |
| Language | 英語English |
| Scopus ID | 2-s2.0-85199975351 |
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| Document Type | Journal article |
| Collection | University of Macau |
| Affiliation | 1.School of Chinese Language and Literature, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Yuhangtang Road 866, Zhejiang Province, China 2.School of Liberal Arts, Guangxi University, Nanning City, Daxue East Road100#, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China 3.Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Macau, Avenida da Universidade, Taipa, Macao |
| Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Li, Xuping,Wei, Huan’gan,Liu, Hongyong. Counting and countability in classifier languages: evidence from Donglan Zhuang[J]. Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 2024. |
| APA | Li, Xuping., Wei, Huan’gan., & Liu, Hongyong (2024). Counting and countability in classifier languages: evidence from Donglan Zhuang. Journal of East Asian Linguistics. |
| MLA | Li, Xuping,et al."Counting and countability in classifier languages: evidence from Donglan Zhuang".Journal of East Asian Linguistics (2024). |
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