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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Main Author: Li XuPing
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Sciendo 2017
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/6eb2bc6e119c4c019d1585c6f06521be
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