The establishment of the classifier system and the grammaticalization of the morphosyntactic particle de in Chinese

Language Sciences

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-15

  Shi, Yuzhi ^a   Li, Charles N ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Analogy; Classifier; Grammaticalization; Optimization; Semantic suitability

Indexed keywords

EID: 22944474959     PISSN: 03880001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0388-0001(00)00048-6     Document Type: Article

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