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Prosodically Constrained Localizers in Classical and Modern Chinese
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2014
Space and Quantification in Languages of China
This paper discusses the Chinese localizers in terms of prosody. It argues that the development of localizers in Classical Chinese was a typological change from a synthetic to an analytic language type (Huang, Syntactic analyticity: the other end of the parameters . LSA Summer Institute Lecture Notes. MIT/Harvard, 2005, Xu, Typological change in Chinese syntax. Oxford Press, Oxford/New York, 2006) conditioned on the "multi-syllabic constraint" (Sun, Two conditions and grammaticalization of the
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