On the semantic distinction between classifiers and measure words in Chinese

Language and Linguistics

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 527-551

  Her, One Soon ^a   Hsieh, Chen Tien ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Analytic proposition; Classifier; Essential property; Measure word

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952872927     PISSN: 1606822X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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