Esther Lam
List of John Benjamins publications in which Esther Lam is involved.
Article
2023 Definite-like meaning of bare classifiers in Nung Functions of Language 30:3, pp. 287–319 | Article
Nung (Tai, Kra-Dai) is a numeral-classifier language that contains the Classifier-Noun (cl-n, or ‘bare classifier’) construction. Drawing on Langacker’s Cognitive Grammar (Langacker 1987, 2004, 2008, 2017) (CG), I argue that the use of a Nung cl-n phrase is only possible when it refers to a… read more