Plurality and classifiers across languages in China / edited by Dan Xu.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction : Plurality and classifiers across languages of China / Dan Xu -- Correlations between different types of quantification. Numeral classifiers with plural marking : a challenge to Greenberg / Walter Bisang ; Reduplication in languages : a case study of languages of China / Dan Xu -- Numeral classifiers and their diachronic development. The syntax and prosody of classifiers in classical Chinese / Shengli Feng ; Individuating classifiers in early Southern min (14th-19th centuries) / Lin Jang-Ling and Alain Peyraube -- The expression of plurality. Plurality and the subclassification of nouns in classical Chinese / Christoph Harbsmeier ; Number in Chinese : a diachronic study of zhū from Han to Wei Jin Nanbeichao Chinese / Barbara Meisterernst ; Bu-tong 'different' and nominal plurality in mandarin Chinese / Marie-Claude Paris ; Plurality in the pronominal paradigms of Bai dialects / Jingqi Fu ; Frequentative aspect and pluractionality in Nuosu Yi / Hongyong Liu and Yang Gu ; Quantificational structures in three-year-old Chinese-speaking children / Thomas Hun-tak Lee -- Author index -- Subject index.