Quantification in Mandarin Chinese: two markers of plurality

1994/01/01 by ROBERT ILJIC, Robert Iljic · 4 citations
Social Sciences · #China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations #Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism #Linguistic Variation and Morphology

paper · doi:10.1515/ling.1994.32.1.91

Abstract

L'article traite du probleme de la pluralite en chinois. Il est demontre que les deux marqueurs de pluralite - (yi)xie et -men - sont motives non pas par des considerations numeriques, mais par la reference a une totalite

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