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NOUN CLASSIFIERS IN KAM AND CHINESE KAM-TAI LANGUAGES: THEIR MORPHOSYNTAX, SEMANTICS AND HISTORY
侗语和中国壮侗语言的名量词：语素句法，语义和历史
摘要
The aim of this study is to analyse the system of Kam noun classifiers in synchronical typological and diachronical pan-Kam-Tai perspective. While Kam is at the center stage of this investigation, additional data are presented from a survey of 22 Kam-Tai languages which belong to four nationalities in the P.R. of China: the Dong, Bouyei, Shui and Zhuang nationalities. The main morphosyntax function of these Chinese Kam-Tai languages is to occur in quantificational constructions (numeral and quantifier) and in referential expressions (indefiniteness, demonstrative pronouns and nominalization). Classifiers in Chinese Kam-Tai languages appear in pre-nominal position and stand in constrast to classifiers of the Kam-Tai languages located in Burma, Thailand and Vietnam which typically project the classifier into post-nominal position. Concerning the semantics of classifier systems, the Chinese Kam-Tai languages involve animacy as primary parameter, dimensionality (shape) as secondary parameter, and functionality (or instrumentality) as tertiary parameter. The sound structure of a number of core-classifiers displays a surprisingly homogenous picture across the range of Kam-Tai languages surveyed.
並列摘要
本文研究的目的是对侗语名量词在现时类型学方面和全壮侗语系历史性方面进行了分析。侗语是本文研究的重点，除此之外还增加了新的研究数据，这些新数据是来自22个壮侗语系语言的调查，这些壮侗语系的语言属于中国四个少数民族，即：侗族、布依族、水族和壮族。这些中国壮侗语言的主要语素句法的功能是表现在数量结构和引导结构（不定概念、指示代词和名物化）。中国壮侗语言的量词是位于每个名词前；不同于缅甸、泰国和越南的壮侗语言，后者的量词是位于每个名词后。量词体系的语义在中国壮侗语言中以三种参数构成：第一是有生命参数、第二是有型参数，第三是功能参数。在我所调查的中国壮侗语言中，一些中心量词的语音结构有比较相同的发音。