ARE CLASSIFIERS DEFINITE MARKERS OF PLURALITY IN JAPANESE?

<p><span lang="EN-US">The purpose of this paper is to discuss whether classifiers in Japanese behave like markers of definiteness or not. It is well known that Japanese is an articleless language. Such an explanation turns out to be useful, since demonstratives together with the category of classifiers and number represent the principal means of individuation not only in Japanese, but in most languages.</span></p>

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2025-08-18
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16892549
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Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
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ARE CLASSIFIERS DEFINITE MARKERS OF PLURALITY IN JAPANESE?

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ARE CLASSIFIERS DEFINITE MARKERS OF PLURALITY IN JAPANESE?

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<p><span lang="EN-US">The purpose of this paper is to discuss whether classifiers in Japanese behave like markers of definiteness or not. It is well known that Japanese is an articleless language. Such an explanation turns out to be useful, since demonstratives together with the category of classifiers and number represent the principal means of individuation not only in Japanese, but in most languages.</span></p>

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