On the origin and development of classifiers in Jingpo
Compared to that of other Tibeto-Burman languages, the classifier system of Jingpo is not very developed, especially in terms of count-noun classifiers. When most nouns are counted, no classifier (CL) is necessary; the noun can be directly modified by a numeral. For example, 'four chickens'...
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sg-ntu-dr.10356-1791882024-07-24T03:00:17Z On the origin and development of classifiers in Jingpo Xu, Xijian Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Arts and Humanities Compared to that of other Tibeto-Burman languages, the classifier system of Jingpo is not very developed, especially in terms of count-noun classifiers. When most nouns are counted, no classifier (CL) is necessary; the noun can be directly modified by a numeral. For example, 'four chickens' is expressed as u31 ma 31 1i33 'chicken' + 'four'; 'two shirts' is expressed as pa'33 101333 1155 khoij51 'shirt' + 'two'. I described the basic synchronic characteristics of Jingpo noun classifiers in Xu 1987. The aim of this paper is to discuss the origin and development of Jingpo CLs through an analysis of the Published version 2024-07-24T03:00:16Z 2024-07-24T03:00:16Z 1989 Journal Article Xu, X. (1989). On the origin and development of classifiers in Jingpo. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 12(2), 15-23. https://dx.doi.org/10.32655/LTBA.12.2.02 0731-3500 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/179188 10.32655/LTBA.12.2.02 2 12 15 23 en Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area © 1989 The Editor(s). All rights reserved. application/pdf |
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Compared to that of other Tibeto-Burman languages, the classifier system of Jingpo is not very developed, especially in terms of count-noun classifiers. When most nouns are counted, no classifier (CL) is necessary; the noun can be directly modified by a numeral. For example, 'four chickens' is expressed as u31 ma 31 1i33 'chicken' + 'four'; 'two shirts' is expressed as pa'33 101333 1155 khoij51 'shirt' + 'two'. I described the basic synchronic characteristics of Jingpo noun classifiers in Xu 1987. The aim of this paper is to discuss the origin and development of Jingpo CLs through an analysis of the |
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