From a predication marker to a specificity and definiteness marker:The syntactic functions of classifiers in Chinese and Nuosu Yi

摘要：

The paper examines the function of classifiers from the syntactic perspective. Besides its well-known function of being a definiteness marker (Cheng and Sybesma 1999) or a divider (Borer 2005), this paper validates the proposal of viewing the classifier as a nominal predication marker, as first suggested in Bowers (1991). Data from Chinese and Nuosu Yi will be used to delineate the following overarching macro-structure of nominal phrases, which is argued to be universal for all classifier languages.

作者: Liu, Hongyong

作者单位: South China Normal University

会议类型: 国内会议

会议名称: 第五届形式语言学国际研讨会

会议地点: 光盘

会议语种:英文

页码: 70-71

在线出版日期: 2011-12-10（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）