Author: Melius de Villiers
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: words, numeral
Number of Pages: 126
Published: 2009-06-04
List price: $21.99
ISBN-10: 111055687X
ISBN-13: 9781110556878

Author: Kasumi Yamamoto
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Keywords: acquisition, studies, language, children, case, numeral, classifiers, japanese
Number of Pages: 213
Published: 2005-07-30
List price: $121.00
ISBN-10: 3110183676
ISBN-13: 9783110183672

The book is about the numeral classifier system and the acquisition of Japanese classifiers by Japanese children. It consists of two parts. First, it provides a general typological characterization of numeral classifier phrases and discusses problems in determining what constitutes the nature of classifiers. It also discusses the semantic properties of numeral classifiers based on an analysis of four languages from four different language families. Second, it examines the acquisitions of Japanese numeral classifiers by Japanese preschool children, ages 3 to 6, with a primary emphasis on the de