The constituency of classifier constructions in mandarin Chinese

Taiwan Journal of Linguistics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-50

  Zhang, Niina Ning ^a  

^a National Chongcheng University   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Chinese; Classifier; Constituent; Left branching; Measure; Right branching

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960179020     PISSN: 17294649     EISSN: 19942559     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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