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Publication details [#29705]

Matsumoto, Yo. 1993. Japanese numeral classifiers: A study of semantic categories and lexical organization. Linguistics 31 (4) : 667–713.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

categorization | classifier | prototype | semantic representation

Language as a subject

Japanese

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter Mouton

ISBN

0024-3949

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/LING/html

Annotation

This article deals with the nature of semantic categories and the organization of lexical items as manifested in Japanese numeral classifiers, and with some general issues of numeral classifiers and lexical semantics.