Classifiers and the count/mass distinction

Functional Structure(s), Form and Interpretation: Perspectives from East Asian Languages

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 65-96

  Muromatsu, Keiko ^a  

^a ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203987667     Document Type: Chapter

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