CLASSIFIERS ARE FOR NUMERALS, NOT FOR NOUNS: CONSEQUENCES FOR THE MASS-COUNT DISTINCTION *
In classifier languages, nouns must appear with one of a series of classifiers in order to be modified by a numeral. This squib presents new data from Mi’gmaq (Algonquian) and Chol (Mayan), arguing that classifiers are required due to the syntactic and semantic properties of the numeral (as in Krifk...
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2013
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.353.1742 http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/001818/current.pdf?_s=X07JDclTzN16FEXH |