Numeral Classifiers in Tai Lue (Xishuangbanna)
The Tai Lue language has a complex numeral classifier system in common with other Southeast Asian languages. Using data from a 344,000-word corpus of Tai Lue texts, this paper catalogues Tai Lue numeral classifiers and the constructions in which they occur. Like Standard Thai and Lao, the general in...
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| description | The Tai Lue language has a complex numeral classifier system in common with other Southeast Asian languages. Using data from a 344,000-word corpus of Tai Lue texts, this paper catalogues Tai Lue numeral classifiers and the constructions in which they occur. Like Standard Thai and Lao, the general inanimate classifier an⁴ and the animal classifier too¹ can substitute for specific classifiers, including classifiers for humans, when they host a demonstrative, adjective, or relative clause. Moreover, the human classifier, pʰuu³, occurs almost exclusively in these descriptive constructions. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ce29df4a316b4dc29771b30b69171e532022-12-22T01:53:24ZengUniversity of Hawaii PressJournal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society1836-68211836-68212019-09-01122134Numeral Classifiers in Tai Lue (Xishuangbanna)Audra Phillips0William J. Hanna1Payap UniversitySIL InternationalThe Tai Lue language has a complex numeral classifier system in common with other Southeast Asian languages. Using data from a 344,000-word corpus of Tai Lue texts, this paper catalogues Tai Lue numeral classifiers and the constructions in which they occur. Like Standard Thai and Lao, the general inanimate classifier an⁴ and the animal classifier too¹ can substitute for specific classifiers, including classifiers for humans, when they host a demonstrative, adjective, or relative clause. Moreover, the human classifier, pʰuu³, occurs almost exclusively in these descriptive constructions.http://hdl.handle.net/10524/52452Tai LueSouthwestern TaiKam-Tainumeral classifiersclassifier constructions |
| spellingShingle | Audra Phillips William J. Hanna Numeral Classifiers in Tai Lue (Xishuangbanna) Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society Tai Lue Southwestern Tai Kam-Tai numeral classifiers classifier constructions |
| title | Numeral Classifiers in Tai Lue (Xishuangbanna) |
| title_full | Numeral Classifiers in Tai Lue (Xishuangbanna) |
| title_fullStr | Numeral Classifiers in Tai Lue (Xishuangbanna) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Numeral Classifiers in Tai Lue (Xishuangbanna) |
| title_short | Numeral Classifiers in Tai Lue (Xishuangbanna) |
| title_sort | numeral classifiers in tai lue xishuangbanna |
| topic | Tai Lue Southwestern Tai Kam-Tai numeral classifiers classifier constructions |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10524/52452 |
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