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Pragmatic Functions of Numeral Classifiers in Mandarin Chinese.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Pragmatic Functions of Numeral Classifiers in Mandarin Chinese./
Author:	Wang, Ran.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2021,
Description:	163 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-01, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International83-01A.
Subject:	Linguistics. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28540156
ISBN:	9798516941740

Pragmatic Functions of Numeral Classifiers in Mandarin Chinese.
Wang, Ran.

Pragmatic Functions of Numeral Classifiers in Mandarin Chinese. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2021 - 163 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-01, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Buffalo, 2021.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Numeral classifiers have been extensively studied. The majority of literature on Mandarin classifiers has been devoted to the syntactic and semantic properties of classifiers, especially on the general classifier and the lexical taxonomy of specific classifiers. The pragmatic researches on this topic generally study the difference between the classified NP with non-classified NP, leaving the information structure within numeral NP's untouched. Moreover, it is generally believed that Mandarin Chinese is a classifier language, which means that a classifier is obligatory in a numeral NP. However, this dissertation uses corpus data to show that it is not uncommon that a classifier is absent from its NP. It further investigates this issue, attempting to provide an account for the optionality of Mandarin classifiers from a pragmatic point of view.This dissertation argues first that some classifiers may carry important lexical or grammatical information, making them less likely to be absent. The dissertation also argues with the support of corpus data that, when a classifier does not provide important classificatory information, its presence or absence correlates with the importance of the nominal information or numerical information in the NP, and then the dissertation argues that classifiers are a marker for the information importance, and thusly influence the information structure and focus assignment within numeral NP's, which is an important pragmatic function of Mandarin classifiers. This dissertation also proposes a continuum of classifiers in regard of classifiers' ability of being independently used as a noun. Previous related studies were less generalized or stipulated features to classify classifiers, however, the proposed continuum shows that the acceptability of classifiers participating in noun-forming inversion, taking pre-classifier modifier, de-insertion as well as the absence of classifiers may depend on one single characteristic inherent to classifiers themselves: whether they could be used independently as a noun. This is a brand-new way of understanding Mandarin classifiers that does not stipulate any additional feature to classify classifiers.

ISBN: 9798516941740Subjects--Topical Terms:

524476
Linguistics.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Classifiers

Pragmatic Functions of Numeral Classifiers in Mandarin Chinese.
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