CLASSIFIERS ARE FOR NUMERALS, NOT FOR NOUNS: CONSEQUENCES FOR THE MASS-COUNT DISTINCTION*
In languages with numeral classifiers systems, 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 numeral classifiers are required due to the syntactic and semantic properti...
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2013
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Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.646.494 http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/001818/current.pdf?_s=Rr8YXH-Xf_HQw7Hn |
Summary: | In languages with numeral classifiers systems, 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 numeral classifiers are required due to the syntactic and semantic properties of the numeral (as in Krifka 1995), rather than the noun (as in Chierchia 1998). The results are shown to have important |
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