Nouns are both mass and count: Evidence from unclassified nouns in adult and child Mandarin Chinese
This paper examines the interpretation of unclassified nouns in Mandarin Chinese from the perspective of three theoretical approaches to the mass-count distinction in Mandarin: a lexico-syntactic approach (Doetjes 1997; Cheng & Sybesma 1998), a syntax-driven approach (Borer 2005), and a hybrid a...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2018-04-01
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Series: | Glossa |
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Online Access: | https://www.glossa-journal.org/articles/406 |