{"pk":46570,"title":"Plural Classifier xie and Grammatical Number in Mandarin Chinese","subtitle":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an analysis of Mandarin Chinese as having both singular classifiers and a plural classifier, \nxie\n. The Num head is the cross-linguistic locus for number marking, hosting both plural suffixes (such as English -\ns)\n and classifiers. As Mandarin bare nouns are general number (inclusive plural), singular classifiers create a singular reading while plural classifier \nxie\n creates a plural (exclusive plural) reading; thus Mandarin makes a three-way grammatical number distinction.","language":"en","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/86x3h5gz","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Yi-Chi","middle_name":"","last_name":"Wu","name_suffix":"","institution":"UC Berkeley","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2019-07-23T08:45:30Z","date_accepted":"2019-07-23T08:45:30Z","date_published":"2019-07-23T19:00:15Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/bling_formal_linguistics/article/46570/galley/35286/download/"}]}