Mingming Liu
Mingming Liu
Mandarin universal terms such as mei-NPs in preverbal positions usually require the presence of dou 'all/even'. This motivates the widely accepted idea from Lin (Nat Lang Semant 6:201-243, 1998) that Mandarin does not have genuine distribut...
Duk-Ho An
Duk-Ho An
In this paper, I examine a novel type of comparative construction in Korean, namely, reduced NP comparatives (RNC), and consider its implications. On the surface, RNC may appear to be a case of the usual NP comparative construction in that ...
A comitative source for object markers in Sinitic languages: kai55 in Waxiang and kang7 in Southern Min [0.03%]
汉语从类指源发展出来的宾语标记：闽南方言的“ngaB7”与瓦乡话的“kai55”
Hilary Chappell,Alain Peyraube,Yunji Wu
Hilary Chappell
This analysis sets out to specifically discuss the polyfunctionality of [kai55] in Waxiang (Sinitic), whose lexical source is the verb 'to follow'. Amongst its various uses, we find a preposition 'with, along', a marker of adjuncts and a NP...
Learning that classifiers count: Mandarin-speaking children's acquisition of sortal and mensural classifiers [0.03%]
关于类符和量词的学习：说普通话的儿童对分类器的习得
Peggy Li,Becky Huang,Yaling Hsiao
Peggy Li
Two experiments explored two-to five-year-old Mandarin-speaking children's acquisition of classifiers, mandatory morphemes for expressing quantities in many Asian languages. Classifiers are similar to measure words in English (e.g., a piece...