English Quasi-Numeral Classifiers

Autor

Xu Zhang

Editura

Peter Lang Ag, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften

An publicare

2017

Nr. Pagini

380

ISBN

9783034328180

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As a corpus-based typological cognitive study of English binominal quantitative expressions based on English-Chinese comparison, the book discovers functional equivalents of Chinese numeral classifiers in English, i.e. 'Quasi-Numeral Classifiers' (QNCs) and unveils the categorisation process reflected by five cases of Dimensionality-based QNCs.