Publications

Publication details [#45726]

Fukushima, Kazuhiko. 2007. Conspiracy of form and context for proper semantic interpretation: The implications of lonesome numeral classifiers in Japanese. Journal of Pragmatics 39 (5) : 960–989.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

classifier | context | form | pragmatics | semantic interpretation

Language as a subject

Japanese

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper proposes to use an ‘inclusive’ grammatical framework, capable of both synthesizing form- and context related information, to study the unexpected behavior of Japanese numeral classifiers.