Nominal Arguments and Language Variation

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Nominal Arguments and Language Variation is written by Li Julie Jiang and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0190084197 (ISBN 10) and 9780190084196 (ISBN 13).

This book investigates nominal arguments in classifier languages, refuting the long-held claim that classifier languages do not have overt article determiners (D). Li Julie Jiang brings the typologically unique Nuosu Yi, a classifier language that has an overt article D, to the forefront of the theoretical investigation. By comparing nominal arguments in Nuosu Yi to those in Mandarin, a well-studied classifier language that has no overt evidence of article determiners, Jiang provides a new parametric account of variation among classifier languages and extends the account to argument formation in general.