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Description of  Plurality and Classifiers across Languages in China

In this volume, quantification will be observed and studied from different perspectives: synchronic, diachronic and typological. Several topics are studied in the book and it focuses on plurality. Based on the current results of research on quantification, the book will deal with more concrete and more targeted subjects such as relations between plurality and classifiers, plurality and reduplication, plurality expressions in non-Han languages, and plurality concepts in child language acquisition.