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A fairly contentious issue within Chinese studies has been the syntax and function of the classifier. In Classifier Structures in Mandarin Chinese, the author provides a detailed description and analysis of the syntactic structure, positioning, and interpretation of Mandarin classifiers.
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In this work, the author has sorted nouns into four categories based on the bivalent features of [Numerability] and [Delimitability], resulting in new perspectives on classifier function and noun classification.
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This reference work is a basic resource for any further research into the relevant topic.
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This page is a summary of: 《漢語的量詞結構》介評, Language and Linguistics 語言暨語言學, July 2022, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/lali.18.3.07den.
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