Preface -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1. Issues -- 1.1. Issue 1: the debate on a count/mass distinction in Mandarin -- 1.2. Issue 2: counting and measuring functions of classifiers -- 1.3. Issue 3: definiteness in classifier languages -- 2. Data and source -- 3. Structure of the book -- Part I: The debate on a count/mass distinction in Chinese -- Chapter 2: Defing classifiers -- 1. Chinese classifiers: an illustration -- 1.1. Identifying classifiers syntactically -- 1.2. Chinese classifiers: a heuristic classification -- 2. Classifiers as a closed class -- 3. Classifiers without "descriptive content" -- 3.1. Classifiers are not nominal -- 3.2. Classifiers have no 'descriptive content' -- 4. Classifiers are complement-taking -- 5. Classifiers as stressless -- 6. Classifiers in English: a contrastive look -- 7. Conclusions -- Chapter 3: The count/mass distinction in Chinese revisited -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Syntactic distinction between count and mass classifiers -- 2.1. Introduction to count/mass classifiers -- 2.2. Lexical/functional distinction of classifiers -- 2.3. Two syntactic diagnostics -- 3. Possibility of pre-classifier adjectival modification -- 3.1. Adjectives before count and mass classifiers -- 3.2. Two constraints on pre-classifier adjectives -- 4. Optionality of post-classifier de -- 5. Conclusions -- Chapter 4: Natural atomicity -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Countability and individuation -- 3. A lexical distinction between mass and count nouns -- 4. Individual, stuff and partial-object readings -- 5. Natural atomicity as a grammatically relevant phenomenon -- 6. Conclusions -- Chapter 5: Chinese bare nouns -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Krifka-Chierchia hypothesis -- 3. Bare nouns as kinds -- 3.1. Strong kind-inducing contexts -- 3.2. Appositives.

3.3. Scope with respect to opacity -- 3.4. Scope with respect to quantifiers -- 4. Semantics of bare nouns -- 5. Bare predication -- 5.1. Some analyses of copula clauses -- 5.1.1. Ambiguous BEs -- 5.1.2. Unambiguous BE -- 5.2. Post-copula bare nouns as predicates of individuals -- 5.3. Post-copula bare nouns as predicates of subkinds -- 5.4. Post-copula bare nouns as predicates of kinds -- 6. Definite bare nouns -- 6.1. Topic-hood and definiteness -- 6.2. Definite bare nouns in object positions -- 6.3. Semantics of definite bare nouns -- Part II: Functions of classifiers: counting and measuring -- Chapter 6: Counting and measure functions of classifiers -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Counting and measuring readings: a crosslinguistic perspective -- 2.1. Introducing counting and measuring readings -- 2.2. Structures for counting and measuring readings -- 3. Ambiguity of container classifiers in Chinese -- 3.1. Counting and measuring readings for Chinese container classifiers -- 3.2. The syntax of counting and measuring readings -- 4. A feature analysis of classifiers: [±Counting, ±Measuring] -- 4.1. Four types of classifiers -- 4.1.1. Type 1: [+C, -M] classifiers -- 4.1.2. Type 2: [-C, +M] classifiers -- 4.1.3. Type 3: [+C, +M] classifiers -- 4.1.4. Type 4: [-C, -M] classifiers -- 4.1.5. Concluding remarks -- 4.2. Syntactic support for the counting and measuring readings -- 4.3. Semantic shifting between counting and measuring readings -- 5. Semantics of classifiers: counting and measuring -- 5.1. Krifka's (1995) semantics for Chinese classifiers -- 5.2. Rothstein's (2010) semantics for English classifiers -- 5.3. Semantics of Chinese classifiers -- 5.3.1. Semantics of classifiers in counting readings -- 5.3.2. Semantics for classifiers on the measure reading -- 6. Conclusions.

Chapter 7: Adjectival modification in classifier phrases: pre-classifier adjectives -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Licensing pre-classifier adjectives -- 2.1. Pre-classifier adjectives before counting classifiers -- 2.2. "Concrete portion" reading (Partee and Borschev 2012) -- 3. The modification relation of pre-classifier adjectives -- 3.1. Adjectival modification in pseudo-partitives -- 3.2. Pre-classifier adjectives in Mandarin -- 3.2.1. Rejecting pre-classifier adjectives modifying mass classifiers -- 3.2.2. Rejecting pre-classifier adjectives modifying nouns -- 4. Pre-classifier adjectives modifying "Cl+N" -- 4.1. Contexts of using pre-classifier adjectives -- 4.1.1. Consumption contexts -- 4.1.2. Contexts of significance -- 4.1.3. Contrastive contexts -- 4.2. Syntactic structure -- 5. Semantics of pre-classifier adjectives -- 5.1. Introduction to 'expressives' -- 5.2. Pre-classifier adjectives as expressives -- 5.3. Pre-classifier adjectives and plurality -- 6. Conclusions -- Chapter 8: Modification marker de in classifier phrases -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Licensing the post-classifier de -- 2.1. De with mass classifiers (Cheng and Sybesma 1998) -- 2.2. "Information weight" (Tang 2005) -- 2.3. The 'indeterminacy' account (Hsieh 2008) -- 3. Unsolved problems (Li and Rothstein 2012) -- 4. Semantics of Num-measure Cl-de-N: as much as -- 4.1. Measure classifiers and the particle de -- 4.2. Semantics of Num-Clmeasure-de-N -- 5. Num-count Cl-de-N: as many as -- 5.1. Counting classifiers in measure phrases -- 5.2. Semantics of Num-Clcount-de-N -- 6. Conclusions: two puzzles about [+counting] classifiers -- Part III: Definiteness in classifier languages -- Chapter 9: Definite classifiers in southern Chinese languages -- 1. Introduction -- 2. "Cl+N" in three Chinese languages -- 2.1. "Cl+N" in Mandarin -- 2.2. "Cl+N" in Wu.

2.2.1. Preverbal "Cl+N" -- 2.2.2. Postverbal Cl+N -- 2.3. "Cl+N" in Cantonese -- 3. Information structure and (in)definite "Cl+N" -- 4. Syntax of indefinite "Cl+N" -- 4.1. Indefinite "Cl+N" as a reduced form of "one+Cl+N" (Lü 1944) .. -- 4.2. Indefinite "Cl+N" as NumPs -- 4.3. Indefinite "Cl+N" as ClP -- 5. Syntax of definite "Cl+N" -- 5.1. From "Dem+Cl+N" to definite "Cl+N" -- 5.2. Definite "Cl+N" as ClP -- 5.3. Definite "Cl+N" as DP -- 6. Semantic interpretation of "Cl+N" -- 6.1. "Cl+N" with a counting reading -- 6.2. Semantics of indefinite "Cl+N" -- 6.3. Semantics of definite "Cl+N": from counting to definitenessmarking -- 6.3.1. A uniqueness-based approach of definiteness -- 6.3.2. A familiarity-based approach of definiteness -- 6.3.3. Semantics of definite "Cl+N" -- 7. Summary -- Chapter 10: Definite classifiers and their modifiers -- 1. Introduction to modified "Cl+N" -- 2. Syntax of modified "Cl+N" in Wu -- 2.1. Modified "Cl+N" as a definite expression -- 2.2. Modified "Cl+N" as DP -- 2.2.1. Definite classifiers as D head -- 2.2.2. Dems as [Spec DP] -- 2.2.3. Adjs/RCs as [Spec DP] -- 3. Semantics of non-bare "Cl+N" -- 3.1. Definite classifiers characterized with "familiarity" -- 3.2. Interpret modified "Cl-N" compositionally -- 4. Concluding remarks -- References -- Index.