A Note on Reference to Kinds in Mandarin: the N-leikind Compound
This squib examines a special kind-referring expression in Mandarin Chinese, the N-leikind compound. We show that like Mandarin bare nouns, N-leikind compounds also denote kinds, but they can only be instantiated by sets of (sub) kind entities at type <k, t>, and not sets of individuals at typ...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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2017-06-01
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| Series: | Studies in Chinese Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/scl-2017-0002 |