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On the Separation and Relatedness of Classifiers, Number, and Individuation in Niuean *
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In this paper, the role of number in Niuean, an Austronesian language in the Tongic subgroup of the Polynesian family, is discussed. But it is argued that the concepts of individuation, classification and number are separable, even though they overlap significantly.Citations
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On the Semantic Distinction between Classifiers and Measure Words in Chinese
One-Soon Her,Chen-Tien Hsieh +1 more
TL;DR: The authors re-examine these two tests closely and propose two sets of refined, reliable, and revealing tests, which employ the Aristotelian distinction between essential and accidental properties as well as the Kantian difference between analytic and synthetic propositions to characterize the C/M distinction.
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Distinguishing classifiers and measure words: A mathematical perspective and implications
TL;DR: In this article, the authors follow Her and Hsieh (2010) and contend that while C/M both function as a multiplicand mathematically, C's value is necessarily 1 and M's is not, thus ¬1.
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Classifiers and Determiner-less Languages: The Case of Thai
TL;DR: The study shows that Thai arguments behave like English bare arguments in that they exhibit scopelessness and can be interpreted with different meanings such as weak indefinite, generic and kind interpretations.
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The Syntax of Event-Internal and Event-External Verbal Classifiers†
TL;DR: This article argued that a classifier and an event-denoting expression have a spec-head relation, and the verbal expression is the complement of the classifier, and they explained syntactic generalizations of verbal classifiers in Mandarin Chinese.
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Expressing number productively in Mandarin Chinese
TL;DR: This article showed that although bare nouns in Mandarin Chinese encode general number, the language uses reduplicate unit words (including classifiers and measure words) to express unit plurality, and uses non-reduplicate form of unit words to represent unit singularity.
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Reference to Kinds across Language
TL;DR: In this paper, a crosslinguistic analysis of argumental bare nominal arguments is presented, in which determinerless NPs are assumed to occur in canonical argumental positions.
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Bare and Not-So-Bare Nouns and the Structure of NP
Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng,Rint Sybesma +1 more
TL;DR: The authors examined the distribution and interpretational variability of bare nouns and [classifier+noun] phrases in Cantonese and Mandarin and argued that bare noun phrases may have more structure than just Classifier Phrase.
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Plurality of Mass Nouns and the Notion of “Semantic Parameter”
TL;DR: It is proposed that mass nouns come out of the lexicon with plurality already built in and that that is the (only) way in which they differ from count nouns, and a new account of the distribution of mass and count quantifiers is offered, one that takes into consideration possible crosslinguistic variations in such distribution.
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Deriving Greenberg's Universal 20 and Its Exceptions
TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that the actually attested orders, and none of the unattested ones, are derivable from a single, universal, order of Merge (Dem > Num > Adj > N) and from independent conditions on phrasal movement.
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Classifiers: A Typology of Noun Categorization Devices
TL;DR: This paper provided a comprehensive and original analysis of noun categorization devices all over the world, focusing on nouns and their grammatical means for categorizing nouns in almost all languages.