Year: 2024
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: This paper focuses on the structure and interpretation of Cantonese NPs. We first map different cognitive statuses (Gundel et al. 1993) to different forms of Cantonese noun phrases, following the hierarchy proposed in Borthen & Haugereid (2005). We then provide an HPSG analysis for Cantonese noun phrases. We account for the differences between classifiers appearing with and without a numeral, where classifiers with no numeral are interpreted as having a cardinality of ‘one’. We propose a Classifier Head Rule where the noun first takes a specifier containing the classifier, and the output further takes a determiner as its specifier. The analysis is implemented in an open-source Cantonese HPSG.
DOI: 10.21248/hpsg.2024.4
Authors: Francis Bond, Joanna Ut-Seong Sio
Institution: Palacký University Olomouc
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4408782735