Nominal Arguments and Language Variation

Li Julie Jiang (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

384 Seiten

2020
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-008417-2 (ISBN)

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Nominal Arguments in Language Variation investigates nominal arguments in classifier languages, refuting the long-held claim that classifier languages do not have overt article determiners. Li Julie Jiang brings the typologically unique Nuosu Yi, a classifier language that has an overt definite determiner (D), to the forefront of the theoretical investigation. By comparing nominal arguments in Nuosu Yi to those in Mandarin, a well-studied classifier language that has no overt evidence of an article determiner, Jiang provides new accounts of variation among classifier languages and extends the parameters to argument formation in general. In addition to paying particular attention to these two classifier languages, the discussion of nominal arguments also covers a wider range of classifier languages and number marking languages from Romance, Germanic, and Slavic to Hindi.

Using a broad cross-linguistic perspective and detailed empirical analysis, Nominal Arguments in Language Variation is an important contribution to research on classifier languages and the fields of theoretical syntax, semantics, language variation, and linguistic typology.

Li Julie Jiang is Associate Professor of Chinese Linguistics at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures.

Chapter 1: Introduction

Part I: A Classifier Language without D: Mandarin

Chapter 2: Bare Numeral Classifier Phrases and Bare Nouns in Mandarin
Chapter 3: Plurality and Complex Nominal Arguments in Mandarin: still without D

Part II: A Classifier Language with D: Nuosu Yi
Chapter 4: Classifier Languages with D: Nuosu Yi

Part III: When What You See is What You Get and When it is Not--Language Universals, Variation, and Typology of Nominal Arguments
Chapter 5: Variation in Classifier languages
Chapter 6: Implications on Nominal Argument Formation in General
Chapter 7: Conclusion

Bibliography.

Erscheinungsdatum	02.09.2020
Reihe/Serie	Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	234 x 155 mm
Gewicht	522 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-19-008417-0 / 0190084170
ISBN-13	978-0-19-008417-2 / 9780190084172
Zustand	Neuware