Slavic aspectual prefixes and numeral classifiers: Two kinds of lexico-grammatical unitizers

Two kinds of definites in numeral classifier languages

Numeral classifier languages are shown to distinguish definite noun phrases licensed by uniqeness from those licensed by familiarity. Unique definites are expressed by bare nouns, while familiar definites are expressed by indexicals such as demonstrative descriptions or pronouns. This generalization parallels the observation by Schwarz (2009) that German distinguishes unique versus familiar or ...

The Acquisition of Japanese Numeral Classifiers: Linkage between Grammatical Forms and Conceptual Categories

Grammatical number in numeral-noun constructions

A common assumption in current generative literature on cardinal numerals is that, with few exceptions, the structural relation between a numeral and the noun that it combines with is uniform, cross-linguistically as well as language-internally. Thus, the debate whether numerals are heads that select a projection of the noun as their complements (Ionin and Matushansky 2006), or specifiers of an...

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...