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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Autor principal:	Li XuPing
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Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	Sciendo 2017
Materias:	kind terms bare noun kind classifier n-lei Chinese language and literature PL1001-3208
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:6eb2bc6e119c4c019d1585c6f06521be2021-12-02T15:27:26ZA Note on Reference to Kinds in Mandarin: the N-leikind Compound1017-127410.1515/scl-2017-0002https://doaj.org/article/6eb2bc6e119c4c019d1585c6f06521be2017-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1515/scl-2017-0002https://doaj.org/toc/1017-1274This 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 type <e, t>. Specifically, those kind entities belong to basic-level categories in some folk taxonomy. We claim that N-lei is the nominalization counterpart of the classifier phrase lei-N, and it denotes superkinds, which are instantiated by sets of subkind entities. Accordingly, Mandarin bare nouns are comparable to bare plurals in English, whereas N-lei is comparable to definite singulars in English.Li XuPingSciendoarticlekind termsbare nounkind classifiern-leiChinese language and literaturePL1001-3208ENStudies in Chinese Linguistics, Vol 38, Iss 1, Pp 18-34 (2017)
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description	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 type <e, t>. Specifically, those kind entities belong to basic-level categories in some folk taxonomy. We claim that N-lei is the nominalization counterpart of the classifier phrase lei-N, and it denotes superkinds, which are instantiated by sets of subkind entities. Accordingly, Mandarin bare nouns are comparable to bare plurals in English, whereas N-lei is comparable to definite singulars in English.
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title	A Note on Reference to Kinds in Mandarin: the N-leikind Compound
title_short	A Note on Reference to Kinds in Mandarin: the N-leikind Compound
title_full	A Note on Reference to Kinds in Mandarin: the N-leikind Compound
title_fullStr	A Note on Reference to Kinds in Mandarin: the N-leikind Compound
title_full_unstemmed	A Note on Reference to Kinds in Mandarin: the N-leikind Compound
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A Note on Reference to Kinds in Mandarin: the N-leikind Compound

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