Individuals, kinds and events: Classifier coercion of nouns

Language Sciences

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 353-373

  Huang, Chu Ren ^a   Ahrens, Kathleen ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF LINGUISTICS   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Chinese; Classifier; Coercion

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038713876     PISSN: 03880001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0388-0001(02)00021-9     Document Type: Article

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