Numeral Classifiers and Classifier Languages

NOTE EDITORE

Focusing mainly on classifiers, Numeral Classifiers and Classifier Languages offers a deep investigation ofthree major classifier languages: Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.This bookprovides detailed discussions well supported by empirical evidence and corpus analyses. Theoretical hypotheses regarding differences and commonalities between numeral classifier languages and other mainly article languages are tested to seek universals or typological characteristics. The essays collected here from leading scholars in different fields promise to be greatly significant in the field of linguistics for several reasons. First, it targets three representative classifier languages in Asia. It also provides critical clues and suggests solutionsto syntactic, semantic,psychological, and philosophicalissues about classifier constructions. Finally, it addresses ensuing debates that may arise in the field of linguistics in general and neighboring inter-disciplinary areas. This book should be of great interest to advanced students and scholars of East Asian languages.

SOMMARIO

Chapter I: Numeral Classifiers and Diversity of Classifier Systems Byeong-uk Yi Chapter II: Taxonomy of Numeral Classifiers: A Formal Semantic Proposal Jiun-Shiung Wu and One-Soon Her Chapter III: Japanese Semantics and the Mass/Count Distinction Takashi Ilda Chapter IV: A Continuum-Based Approach to the Count-Mass Distinction in Korean Kwang-sup Kim Chapter V: Anti-Generic (Existential) and Distributive Nature of NumCL-Marking Chungmin Lee Chapter VI: Classifiers, Articles, and Bare Nominals Byeong-uk Yi Chapter VII: Japanese Numeral Quantifiers that Count Events Mana Kobuchi-Philip Chapter VIII: How Classifiers Affect the Mental Representation of Entities Mutsumi Imai and Junko Kanero Chapter IX: Descriptive Function of Numeral Classifiers: A Corpus Based Analysis of Numeral Classifiers in Korean Young-Wha Kim

AUTORE

Chungmin Lee is Professor Emeritus it the Department of Linguistics atSeoul National University and a member of National Academy of Sciences, the Republic of Korea. Young-Wha Kim is Professor Emeritusin the Department of English Language & Literature at Hallym University in the Republic of Korea. Byeong-uk Yi is Professorin the Department of Philosophy at theUniversity of Toronto in Canada.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9781138054974
• Collana: Routledge Studies in East Asian Linguistics
• Dimensioni: 9.25 x 6.25 in Ø 1.23 lb
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: 16 b/w images, 10 tables, 2 halftones and 14 line drawings
• Pagine Arabe: 268
• Pagine Romane: xvi