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This monograph addresses fundamental syntactic issues of classifier constructions, based on a thorough study of a typical classifier language, Mandarin Chinese. It shows that the contrast between count and mass is not binary. Instead, there are two independently attested features: Numerability, the ability of a noun to combine with a numeral directly, and Delimitability, the ability of a noun to be modified by a delimitive modifier, such as size, shape, or boundary modifier. Although all nouns in Chinese are non-count nouns, there is still a mass/non-mass contrast, with mass nouns selected by individuating classifiers and non-mass nouns selected by individual classifiers. Some languages have the counterparts of Chinese individuating classifiers only, some languages have the counterparts of Chinese individual classifiers only, and some other languages have no counterpart of either individual or individuating classifiers of Chinese. The book also reports that unit plurality can be expressed by reduplicative classifiers in the language. Moreover, for the constituency of a numeral expression, an individual, individuating, or kind classifier combines with the noun first and then the numeral is integrated; but a partitive or collective classifier, like a measure word, combines with the numeral first, before the noun is integrated into the whole nominal structure. Furthermore, the book identifies the syntactic positions of various uses of classifiers in the language. A classifier is at a functional head position that has a dependency with a numeral, or a position that has a dependency with a generic or existential quantifier, or a position that represents the singular-plural contrast, or a position that licenses a delimitive modifier when the classifier occurs in a compound.

Mandarin dialects --- Chinese language --- Mandarin (Langue) --- Chinois (Langue) --- Classifiers --- Quantifiers --- Numerals --- Classificateurs --- Quantificateurs --- Numéraux --- Mandarin dialects. --- Northern Chinese dialects --- Chien hua tzu --- Chien tʻi tzu --- Chinese characters, Simplified --- Simplified Chinese characters --- English. --- Simplified characters. --- Jian hua zi --- Jian ti zi --- Chinese characters --- Classifier Languages. --- Classifiers. --- Mandarin Chinese.

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This volume is about the nature of categories in cognition and the relevance of these in language description, especially classifier systems. The classical view of categories was that they were discrete and based upon clusters of properties which were inherent to the entities. In recent years this conception has been challenged in different fields. By now prototype theory has established itself as one of the main approaches in linguistics. This volume brings classifier systems to the attention of cognitive psychologists dealing with the phenomenon of human categorization. For the general lingu

Lexicology. Semantics --- Classifiers (Linguistics) --- -Grammar, Comparative and general --- -Language acquisition --- -Semantics --- -801.56 --- 801.56 Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Formal semantics --- Semasiology --- Semiology (Semantics) --- Comparative linguistics --- Information theory --- Language and languages --- Lexicology --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Acquisition of language --- Developmental linguistics --- Developmental psycholinguistics --- Language development in children --- Psycholinguistics, Developmental --- Interpersonal communication in children --- Psycholinguistics --- Comparative grammar --- Grammar --- Grammar, Philosophical --- Grammar, Universal --- Philosophical grammar --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Auxiliary numerals (Linguistics) --- Determinatives (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Congresses --- Grammatical categories --- Nominals --- -Congresses --- Acquisition --- Grammar, Comparative --- Classifiers --- Language acquisition --- Semantics --- Congresses. --- 801.56 --- Grammatical categories&delete& --- Nominals&delete& --- Classificatoren [Taalwetenschap]. (Congres) --- Categorieën [Spraakkunst]. (Congres) --- Semantiek. (Congres) --- Taal. Aanleren. (Congres) --- Classificateurs [Linguistique]. (Congrès) --- Catégories [Grammaire]. (Congrès) --- Sémantique. (Congrès) --- Langage. Apprentissage. (Congrès) --- Naamwoorden. (Congres)

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The book’s central proposition is that the prominent feature of the hiero-glyphic script which Egyptologists call “determinatives” makes up an elabo-rate system of classifiers. All items of the lexicon take motivated pictorial classifiers. By this device, the script reflects the map of knowledgeorganization of ancient Egyptian culture. The book aims to reveal the principles and constraints governing the codification of the ancient Egyptian universe in this system. There is, to date, no comprehensive study, either in Egyptology or in cognitive linguistics, of the hieroglyphic classifiers as a structured system. The present work attempts to fill the existing hiatus by bridging the disciplines of Egyptology and cognitive studies, using the tools of the latter to elucidate the former and thus perhaps arrive at new perspectives on both. From the Egyptological angle, the book deals with the ancient Egyptians’ nomenclature for “items in the world” and the relationship between lexicon and the knowledge organization. However, the events occurring in the picture-script render cognitive processes visible to our inspection hundreds of years before they have ripened into the Egyptian language. This “visibility” bears directly on a number of crucial questions in cognitive linguistics and ethnobiology. The book also includes an introduction to the hieroglyphic script.

Egyptian language --- -Egyptian language --- -Afroasiatic languages --- Classifiers --- Writing, Hieroglyphic --- -Classifiers --- -Gods, Egyptian --- Egyptian gods --- Afroasiatic languages --- -Determiners --- Gods, Egyptian. --- Classifiers. --- Writing, Hieroglyphic. --- Egyptian law --- Egyptian hieroglyphics --- Hieroglyphics, Egyptian --- Law, Egyptian --- Law, Ancient --- Language --- Egypt --- Égypte --- Ägypten --- Egitto --- Egipet --- Egiptos --- Miṣr --- Southern Region (United Arab Republic) --- Egyptian Region (United Arab Republic) --- Iqlīm al-Janūbī (United Arab Republic) --- Egyptian Territory (United Arab Republic) --- Egipat --- Arab Republic of Egypt --- A.R.E. --- ARE (Arab Republic of Egypt) --- Jumhūrīyat Miṣr al-ʻArabīyah --- Mitsrayim --- Egipt --- Ijiptʻŭ --- Misri --- Ancient Egypt --- Gouvernement royal égyptien --- جمهورية مصر العربية --- مِصر‎ --- مَصر‎ --- Maṣr --- Khēmi --- エジプト --- Ejiputo --- Egypti --- Egypten --- מצרים --- United Arab Republic --- History --- Gods, Egyptian --- Classification --- Book of the dead. --- Coffin texts. --- CT335 --- BD17 --- Determiners --- Law --- Acts, Legislative --- Enactments, Legislative --- Laws (Statutes) --- Legislative acts --- Legislative enactments --- Jurisprudence --- Legislation --- Determiners. --- Classification. --- Language. --- Writing [Hieroglyphic ] --- Egyptian language - Determiners. --- Egyptian language - Classifiers. --- Egyptian language - Classification. --- Egyptian law - Language. --- Egyptian language - Texts. --- Egyptian language - Writing, Hieroglyphic. --- Egyptian language - Classifiers --- Egyptian language - Writing, Hieroglyphic --- Oiseaux --- Dieux égyptiens --- Livre des morts --- Égyptien ancien (langue) --- Droit égyptien --- Mythologie --- 17 --- Langue --- Classificateurs --- Écriture hiératique --- Textes --- 1314-1085 av. J.-C. (XIXe et XXe dynasties)