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Reusing an ontology to generate numeral classifiers [PDF]
Proceedings of the 18th conference on Computational linguistics -, 2000 In this paper, we present a solution to the problem of generating Japanese numeral classifiers using semantic classes from an ontology. Most nouns must take a numeral classifier when they are quantified in languages such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Malay and Thai.
Bond, Francis., Paik, Kyonghee.
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Mathematical values in the processing of Chinese numeral classifiers and measure words. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 A numeral classifier is required between a numeral and a noun in Chinese, which comes in two varieties, sortal classifer (C) and measural classifier (M), also known as 'classifier' and 'measure word', respectively. Cs categorize objects based on semantic
One-Soon Her +2 more
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Northern Pwo Karen Numeral Classifiers: Semantic Categories and Structures
Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2023 Descriptions of the numeral classifier systems of Karenic (Tibeto-Burman) languages are limited to Eastern Kayah (Solnit 1997), Thai Sgaw Karen (Ratanakul 2001), and Kayan (Manson 2010). Thus, this paper aims to expand knowledge about Karenic classifiers
Audra Phillips
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Numeral Classifiers in Tai Lue (Xishuangbanna) [PDF]
Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2019 The Tai Lue language has a complex numeral classifier system in common with other Southeast Asian languages. Using data from a 344,000-word corpus of Tai Lue texts, this paper catalogues Tai Lue numeral classifiers and the constructions in which they ...
Audra Phillips, William J. Hanna
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Word order of numeral classifiers and numeral bases
STUF - Language Typology and Universals, 2019 In a numeral classifier language, a sortal classifier (C) or a mensural classifier (M) is needed when a noun is quantified by a numeral (Num). Num and C/M are adjacent cross-linguistically, either in a [Num C/M] order or [C/M Num]. Likewise, in a complex numeral with a multiplicative composition, the base may follow the multiplier as in [n×base], e.g.,
Her, One-Soon +2 more
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Classifiers, partitions, and measurements: Exploring the syntax and semantics of sortal classifiers
Glossa, 2019 In many languages, measure terms like item and kilo, as in two items of furniture and two kilos of rice, can be used either to partition the nominal denotation into countable units, or to measure a denotation without inducing a partition. These two types
Alan Bale, Jessica Coon, Nicholás Arcos
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Quantity expressions in the Gumer variety of Gurage
Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2023 The aim of this study was to investigate how entities are conceptualized and quantified in the Gumer Variety of Gurage, a South Ethiosemitic language.
Fekede Menuta
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Number and Numeral Classifiers
, 2021 AbstractThis chapter describes various ways in which numeral classifiers interact with semantic number and number marking across languages. According to the Sanches–Greenberg–Slobin generalizations, languages in which the use of numeral classifiers is obligatory do not have obligatory number marking on nouns, and in the presence of numeral classifiers,
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The Forms of the Indefinite Article in Eastern Armenian
Armeniaca, 2022 This paper studies the formal distinction of the indefinite article from the quantifier ‘one’ in Early and pre-Modern Armenian texts by three 18‑19th century authors as well as in a colloquial Modern Eastern Armenian dialogue.
Sargsyan, Hasmik
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Number categories and numeral classifiers in Japanese [PDF]
, 2005 In the literature, much attention has been drawn to Japanese noun categorization and numeral classifiers. (Downing 1984, Lakoff 1987, Matsumoto 1991, etc.) In this paper, I argue that Japanese numeral classifiers are syntactic manifestations of number ...
Yoshida, Mitsunobu
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