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ERIC Number: EJ583971
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1999
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ISSN: ISSN-0925-8558
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Plurality in a Classifier Language.
Li, Yen-Hui Audrey
Journal of East Asian Linguistics, v8 n1 p75-99 Jan 1999
Argues that a classifier language can have a plural morpheme within a nominal expression, suggesting that -men in Mandarin Chinese is best analyzed as a plural morpheme, in contrast to a regular plural on an element in N, such as the English -s. The paper makes a prediction about the structures of nominal expressions in classifier and non-classifier languages. (SM)
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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