The pragmatic functions of numeral classifiers in modern Malay written corpus

• Main Authors: Khazriyati Salehuddin,, Heather Winskel,, Marlyna Maros,
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2011
• Online Access: http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1005/1/137-153.pdf; http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1005/; http://www.ukm.my/ppbl/Gema/gemahome.html

Numeral classifiers are primarily used to provide semantic information about the physical and functional properties of objects, the cognitive categories of objects in a particular culture, and the perceptions of the speakers within a particular speech community towards the objects. Numeral classifi...