On the origin and development of classifiers in Jingpo

• Main Author: Xu, Xijian
• Other Authors: Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2024
• Subjects: Arts and Humanities
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/179188
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

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'...