Chapter One Introduction

1.1 Preliminaries

1.2 Overview

1.3 A Note on Terminology and Data

Chapter Two Bare Nouns,Plurality and Classifiers

2.1 Bare Nouns:Reference to Kinds

2.2 The Count-mass Dichotomy of Nouns

2.2.1 The Lexical Approach to the Count-mass Dichotomy

2.2.2 The Syntactic Approach to Count-mass Dichotomy

2.3 Plurality and Classifiers

2.3.1 Plurality

2.3.2 Classifiers

2.3.3 Linking Plurality to Classifiers

2.4 Our Account

2.4.1 Bare Nouns as Property-denoting Root Nouns

2.4.2 Countability

2.5 Summary

Chapter Three A Unified Account of Classifier Phrases

3.1 The Constituency of Classifier Phrases

3.1.1 The Constituency of Classifier Phrases in Chinese

3.1.2 The Constituency of Pseudo-partitive Constructions in English

3.1.3 The Syntactic Relation between Nume and CL

3.1.4 Summing up

3.2 An Overall Semantic Account of Different Types of Classifiers

3.3 The Feature Decomposition Analysis of Classifier Phrases

3.3.1 Number

3.3.2 The Feature Decomposition of CL

3.3.3 Pseudo-plural Forms

3.3.4 Summing up

3.4 Summary

Chapter Four Towards Different Interpretations of Nominal Phrases

4.1 DP

4.1.1 Previous Discussions on D

4.1.2 Redefining D and Its Relevant Notions

4.1.3 The Feature Decomposition Analysis of D

4.2 Accounting for Different Interpretations of Nominal Phrases

4.2.1 Canonical DPs

4.2.2 Non-canonical DPs

4.2.3 Classifiers and Modification

4.2.4 Definiteness Effect Revisited

4.2.5 An Account of Generic Reading

4.2.6 Measure-denoting Nominal Phrases

4.3 Summary

Chapter Five Two Types of Multiple Classifier Constructions

5.1 OMCCs

5.1.1 PCs in English

5.1.2 PCs in Chinese

5.1.3 More on the Structure of PCs

5.1.4 Licensing Conditions of OMCCs

5.2 IMCCs

5.2.1 Recapitulation:English as a Classifier Language

5.2.2 IMCCs in English

5.2.3 IMCCs in Chinese

5.3 Summary

Chapter Six Concluding Remarks

References

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