English Quasi-Numeral Classifiers: A Corpus-Based Cognitive-Typological Study

ISBN-13: 9783034328180 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 380 str.

Xu Zhang

Opis

As a corpus-based typological cognitive study of English binominal quantitative expressions based on English-Chinese comparison, the book discovers functional equivalents of Chinese numeral classifiers in English, i.e. `Quasi-Numeral Classifiers' (QNCs) and unveils the categorisation process reflected by five cases of Dimensionality-based QNCs.

Spis treści

Introduction - Classification of Classifiers and English QNCs: A Typological Perspective - Categorisation by NCs and QNCs: A Cognitive Perspective - A Corpus-Based Methodology - 1-D QNC Categories: Case Studies of Thread, Strip, and Column -2-D QNC Categories: Case Studies of Sheet and Slice - Conclusion

O autorze

Xu Zhang is currently a lecturer in the School of English Studies, Beijing Language and Culture University, China. She obtained her PhD degree in Linguistics from Lancaster University, UK. in 2009.