Dan Xu & Jingqi Fu 
Space and Quantification in Languages of China 

Acknowledgments.- Introduction.- Part I Impact of Space and Quantification on Language Universals and Typology.- 1 Space, Time and Asymmetry in Chinese.- 2 Prosodically Constrained Localizers in Classical and Modern Chinese.- 3 The Status of Classifiers in Tibeto-Burman Languages.- Part II Geographical Space.- 4 The Role of Geography in the Northwest China Linguistic Area.- 5 A Gradual Path to the Loss of Entering tone Syllables: Case studies of Jin dialects in the Lingshi Highlands Shanxi.- Part III Evolution of Quantificational Expressions.- 6 Semantic Change and Grammaticalization of the Universal Quantifier mĕi in Chinese.- 7 Chinese Names for Integers.- Part IV Perception and Expressions of Space.- 8 Quantification and Modality: Intransitive ba Sentences.- 9 How French learners of Chinese L2 Express Motion Events in Narratives.- 10 Expression of the Inclusion Relationship in Contemporary Chinese.- Part V Verbal Quantification.- 11 On the Semantic Functions of Three Different Types of Classifier Reduplication in Mandarin Chinese.- 12 Chinese Semelfactives.