Evidence for the Syntactic Diversity of Numeral Classifiers

the syntactic study of numeral classifiers in persian

this article investigates the syntactic structure of numeral classifiers in persian dps within the minimalist program. numeral classifiers are morphemes by which nouns are numerated by a number category. the morpho-syntactic analysis of classifiers in comparison to the other constituents of dps like number, based on cheng and sybesma (2005), ishii (2000), li(1998, 1999), tang (2004), simpson (2...

Implementing the Syntax of Japanese Numeral Classifiers

While the sortal constraints associated with Japanese numeral classifiers are wellstudied, less attention has been paid to the details of their syntax. We describe an analysis implemented within a broadcoverage HPSG that handles an intricate set of numeral classifier construction types and compositionally relates each to an appropriate semantic representation, using Minimal Recursion Semantics.

Compositional Mechanisms of Japanese Numeral Classifiers

This paper suggests that Generative Lexicon Theory (Pustejovsky, 1995, 2006, 2011) offers a new analysis of numeral classifiers, focusing on Japanese having various kinds of classifiers. It is often said that classifiers agree with quantified nouns, that is, the nouns have to match the semantic requirements of the classifiers. This paper examines their lexical structures and compositional mecha...

the impact of skopos on syntactic features of the target text

the present study is an experimental case study which investigates the impacts, if any, of skopos on syntactic features of the target text. two test groups each consisting of 10 ma students translated a set of sentences selected from advertising texts in the operative and informative mode. the resulting target texts were then statistically analyzed in terms of the number of words, phrases, si...

Do Numeral Classifiers Influence Similarity Judgments?