Chinese Classifiers and Count Nouns

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Many linguists, philosophers, and anthropologists hold that classifier languages,
including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Thai, have no count nouns, and that all their common nouns are mass nouns. This paper argues that Chinese
draws a syntactic, as well as semantic, distinction between mass and count nouns, and suggests how the approach taken to clarify the distinction can be extended to other classifier languages.

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