Numeral Classifiers and Classifier Languages

Chungmin Lee is Professor Emeritus it the Department of Linguistics at Seoul National University and a member of National Academy of Sciences, the Republic of Korea.Young-Wha Kim is Professor Emeritus in the Department of English Language & Literature at Hallym University in the Republic of Korea.Byeong-uk Yi is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto in Canada.

'This is the first volume, published for an international audience, that draws together a group of leading researchers in numeral classifiers in Chinese, Japanese and Korean. The articles included in the volume provide not only fresh data on numeral classifiers but also innovative approaches to the topic. The volume will serve as a useful resource for advanced postgraduate students and all scholars who work on the topic.' — Jaejung Song, Professor, Department of English and Linguistics, University of Otago, New Zealand

• Chapter I: Numeral Classifiers and Diversity of Classifier SystemsChapter II: Taxonomy of Numeral Classifiers: A Formal Semantic ProposalChapter III: Japanese Semantics and the Mass/Count DistinctionChapter IV: A Continuum-Based Approach to the Count-Mass Distinction in KoreanChapter V: Anti-Generic (Existential) and Distributive Nature of NumCL-MarkingChapter VI: Classifiers, Articles, and Bare NominalsChapter VII: Japanese Numeral Quantifiers that Count EventsChapter VIII: How Classifiers Affect the Mental Representation of EntitiesChapter IX: Descriptive Function of Numeral Classifiers: A Corpus Based Analysis of Numeral Classifiers in Korean