A contrastive study of Chinese nominal classifiers and Spanish quantitative nouns

  • Ni Maohua 倪茂华 Shanghai International Studies University (China)
Keywords: nominal classifier, quantitative noun, contrastive analysis

Abstract

Chinese is a classifier language with nominal ones and verbal ones, while in Spanish there are no classifiers. But it doesn´t mean that the quantity for nouns in Spanish can´t be expressed. Actually, the quantitative noun of Spanish overlaps with the nominal classifier in some functions. So a contrastive study is carried out from a morphological, syntactic, semantic and cognitive perspective.

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Published
2018-11-26
How to Cite
Maohua 倪茂华 N. (2018). A contrastive study of Chinese nominal classifiers and Spanish quantitative nouns. Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación, 76, 197-218. https://doi.org/10.5209/CLAC.62505