TY - JOUR
TI - On word order, binding relations, and plurality in Chinese Noun Phrases
AU - Bošković, Željko
AU - Hsieh, I-Ta Chris
TI - On word order, binding relations, and plurality in Chinese Noun Phrases
AB - We provide a semantic account of the free ordering of NP-internal elements in Chinese and argue that this provides evidence for the lack of DP in Chinese. We also extend this account to the Mandarin plural marker -men, tying the defi niteness of -men phrases and its number/definiteness interaction to the classifier status of -men and the lack of DP in Chinese. We show that the binding properties of Chinese possessors also provide evidence for the no-DP analysis of Chinese. Finally, we propose a semantic account of certain differences in the order of NP-internal elements between Chinese and Serbo-Croatian, another language that lacks DP.
VL - Volume 8 (2013)
IS - Vol. 8, Issue 4
PY - 2014
SN - 1732-8160
C1 - 2300-5920
SP - 173
EP - 204
DO - 10.4467/23005920SPL.13.009.1690
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studies-in-polish-linguistics/article/on-word-order-binding-relations-and-plurality-in-chinese-noun-phrases
KW - adjectives
KW - classifiers
KW - demonstratives
KW - possessors
KW - relatives