Classifiers ≠ Determiners

Linguistic Inquiry

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 487-503

  Wu, Yicheng ^a   Bodomo, Adams ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Cantonese; Classifiers; Closed class; Definite determiners; Mandarin; Open class

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349409318     PISSN: 00243892     EISSN: 00243892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/ling.2009.40.3.487     Document Type: Article

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