A Study on the Structural Types and Generative Mechanisms for Chinese Noun-classifier Word-formation
The word-formation of Chinese noun-classifiers not only expresses the conceptual meaning of the nominal element,but also carries the special grammatical meaning of a collective ge-neric reference.This is closely related to the unique compositional characteristics and generative mechanism of the word-formation of noun-classifiers.Previous studies have focused on the structural types and lexical meanings of the word-formation of noun-classifiers,but have not explored the gram-matical justifications for the formation and semantic changes in this word-formation structure.Based on the Distributed Morphology(DM)theory,this paper explores the syntactic conditions for the for-mation of noun-classifier structure from a syntactic perspective,and explains the rationale for the ac-quisition of grammatical meaning of noun-classifier based on the syntactic structure.This paper ar-gues that Chinese classifiers are functional categories,and that the word formation of noun-classifier results in the construction with an additional form after noun morphemes which are created by syntac-tic structure.The combination of nominal and classifier morphemes is driven by the functional classif-ying element in the process of word formation,and the grammatical features of the functional compo-nents in different levels of the noun phrase structure are acquired through displacement,and then the combination is lexicalized into words with grammatical meaning,which have developed into grammat-ical words in essence.
Distributed Morphologynoun-classifier word-formationgenerative mechanismsstructural type
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