Numeral classifiers in Mandarin Chinese

Journal of East Asian Linguistics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 43-59

  Zhang, Hong ^a  

^a University of Connecticut   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese; Classifiers; Cognitive categorization; Lexical taxonomies; Measure words; Noun classes

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846947979     PISSN: 09258558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10831-006-9006-9     Document Type: Article

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