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The Constituency of Classifier Constructions in Mandarin Chinese

Taiwan Journal of Linguistics, 2011-01, Vol.9 (1), p.001-049 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

ISSN: 1729-4649 ;DOI: 10.6519/TJL.2011.9(1).1

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  • Title:
    The Constituency of Classifier Constructions in Mandarin Chinese
  • Author: 張寧(Niina-Ning Zhang)
  • Subjects: Chinese ; classifier ; constituent ; left-branching ; measure ; right-branching ; Scopus ; THCI ; 句法成分 ; 右分枝 ; 單位詞 ; 左分枝 ; 漢語 ; 量詞
  • Is Part Of: Taiwan Journal of Linguistics, 2011-01, Vol.9 (1), p.001-049
  • Description: 由數詞，單位詞，及名詞構成的短語可分析為三種句法結構：容器單位詞，度量單位詞，部分單位詞及群體單位詞出現在左分枝結構中，個體單位詞及個體化單位詞出現在右分枝結構中，種類單位詞出現在延伸式右分枝結構中。此結論由以下考慮得出：左邊緣修飾語的轄域；單位詞的修飾語與名詞的修飾語之間的依存關係；數詞與單位詞的合成體之可能的句法功能；以及單位詞對名詞的語意選擇。本文指出數詞與單位詞的共現以及“多”及“半”的位置都無法證明數詞與單位詞是否構成一個句法成分。而且左右分枝與數量語義及個體語義無對應關係。此外，本文認為單位詞後帶“的”的結構有可能是比較句的省略句式，所以“的”的位置並不一定標示句法成分的分界處
    This paper examines the constituency of the construction that contains three elements: a numeral, a word that encodes a counting unit, such as a classifier or measure word, and a noun in Mandarin Chinese. It identifies three structures: a left-branching structure for container measures, standard measures, partitive classifiers, and collective classifiers; a right-branching structure for individual and individuating classifiers; and a structure in which no two of the three elements form a constituent, for kind classifiers. The identification is based on the investigation of four issues: ＜i＞ the scope of a left-peripheral modifier; ＜ii＞ the dependency between the modifier of unit word and that of a noun; ＜iii＞ the complement and predicate status of the combination of a numeral and a unit word; ＜iv＞ the semantic selection relation between a unit word and a noun. The paper also shows that the co-occurrence of a numeral and a unit word and the position of certain partitive markers are not reliable in identifying syntactic constituents. It also argues against quantity-individual semantic mappings with different syntactic structures. Finally, the paper presents a comparative deletion analysis of the constructions in which the functional word de follows a unit word.
  • Publisher: 台灣: 政治大學語言學研究所暨英國語文學系
  • Language: English;Chinese
  • Identifier: ISSN: 1729-4649
    DOI: 10.6519/TJL.2011.9(1).1
  • Source: DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals
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