Bare and not-so-bare nouns and the structure of NP

被引：418

作者：

Cheng, LLS

Sybesma, R

机构：

[1] Univ Calif Irvine, Dept Linguist, Irvine, CA 92697 USA

[2] Leiden Univ, Dept Gen Linguist, NL-2300 RA Leiden, Netherlands

来源：

LINGUISTIC INQUIRY | 1999年 / 30卷 / 04期

关键词：

Cantonese; classifiers; count nouns; Mandarin; mass nouns; noun interpretation; NP structure;

D O I：

10.1162/002438999554192

中图分类号：

H0 [语言学];

学科分类号：

030303 ; 0501 ; 050102 ;

摘要：

This article examines the distribution and interpretational variability of bare nouns and [classifier + noun] phrases in Cantonese and Mandarin. We argue that bare nouns are never bare in structure and that [classifier + noun] phrases may have more structure than just Classifier Phrase. We show that the lack of articles and number morphology in Cantonese/Mandarin leads to many interesting differences between Chinese-type languages and English-/Italian-type languages.

引用

页码：509 / 542

页数：34

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