论文信息 - A Note on Bulgarian Numeral Classifiers

A Note on Bulgarian Numeral Classifiers

The paper brings up new data highlighting the existence of a restricted numeral classifier system in Bulgarian. Starting from one observation of Greenberg’s, we argue that numeral classifiers in Bulgarian behave as a consistent class and share properties with numeral classifiers in standard numeral classifier languages such as Chinese and Thai.

Guglielmo Cinque | Iliyana Krapova

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