Bare and not-so-bare nouns and the structure of NP

Linguistic Inquiry

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 509-542

  Cheng, Lisa Lai Shen ^a   Sybesma, Rint ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cantonese; Classifiers; Count nouns; Mandarin; Mass nouns; Noun interpretation; NP structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039292269     PISSN: 00243892     EISSN: 00243892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/002438999554192     Document Type: Article

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