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Publication details [#29769]
Iljic, Robert. 1994. Quantification in Mandarin Chinese: Two markers of plurality. Linguistics 32 (1) : 91–116. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
ISBN
0024-3949
Journal WWW
Annotation
This paper argues that two alleged plural markers of Mandarin Chinese, (yi)xie and -men, are in fact collective markers, that never present plurality in the form of several ones, but always as one whole.