TY - JOUR AU - Ahn, Dorothy PY - 2019/05/15 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Korean classifier-less number constructions JF - Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung JA - SuB VL - 22 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.18148/sub/2018.v22i1.63 UR - https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/article/view/63 SP - 23-38 AB - Korean is a generalized classifier language where classifiers are required for numerals to combine with nominals. This paper presents a number construction where the classifier is absent and the numeral appears prenominally. This construction, which I call the classifierless number construction (Cl-less NC), results in a definite or a partitive reading where the referent must be familiar: ‘the two women’ or ‘two of the women’. In order to account for this, I argue that Korean postnominal number constructions are ambiguous between a plain number construction and a partitive construction. After motivating and proposing an analysis for the partitive structure, I argue that Cl-less NC is derived from the partitive construction, explaining its distributional restriction and the interpretation. ER -