Numeral Classifiers in Tai Lue (Xishuangbanna)

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dc.contributor.authorPhillips, Audra
dc.contributor.authorHanna, William J.
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-12T22:05:18Z
dc.date.available2019-09-12T22:05:18Z
dc.date.issued2019-09-27
dc.description.abstractThe Tai Lue language has a complex numeral classifier system in common with other Southeast Asian languages. Using data from a 344,000-word corpus of Tai Lue texts, this paper catalogues Tai Lue numeral classifiers and the constructions in which they occur. Like Standard Thai and Lao, the general inanimate classifier an⁴ and the animal classifier too¹ can substitute for specific classifiers, including classifiers for humans, when they host a demonstrative, adjective, or relative clause. Moreover, the human classifier, pʰuu³, occurs almost exclusively in these descriptive constructions.
dc.format.extent30 pages
dc.identifier.issn1836-6821
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10524/52452
dc.subjectTai Lue
dc.subjectSouthwestern Tai
dc.subjectKam-Tai
dc.subjectnumeral classifiers
dc.subjectclassifier constructions
dc.subject.languagecodekhb
dc.subject.languagecodetha
dc.subject.languagecodelao
dc.titleNumeral Classifiers in Tai Lue (Xishuangbanna)
dc.typeArticle
dc.type.dcmiText
prism.endingpage34
prism.number2
prism.publicationnameJournal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society
prism.startingpage1
prism.volume12

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