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This monograph addresses fundamental syntactic issues of classifier constructions based on a thorough study of a typical classifier language Mandarin Chinese. It shows that the contrast between count and mass is not binary. Instead there are two independently attested features: Numerability the ability of a noun to combine with a numeral directly and Delimitability the ability of a noun to be modified by a delimitive modifier such as size shape or boundary modifier. Although all nouns in Chinese are non-count nouns there is still a mass non-mass contrast with mass nouns selected by individuating classifiers and non-mass nouns selected by individual classifiers. Some languages have the counterparts of Chinese individuating classifiers only some languages have the counterparts of Chinese individual classifiers only and some other languages have no counterpart of either individual or individuating classifiers of Chinese. The book also reports that unit plurality canbe expressed by reduplicative classifiers in the language. Moreover for the constituency of a numeral expression an individual individuating or kind classifier combines with the noun first and then the numeral is integrated but a partitive or collective classifier like a measure word combines with the numeral first before the noun is integrated into the whole nominal structure. Furthermore the book identifies the syntactic positions of various uses of classifiers in the language. A classifier is at a functional head position that has a dependency with a numeral or a position that has a dependency with a generic or existential quantifier or a position that represents the singular-plural contrast or a position that licenses a delimitive modifier when the classifier occurs in a compound.

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