Acknowledgments; Contents; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Objectives; 1.2 Outline of This Book; 1.3 The Language; References; Part I Categories Found in Mandarin and the Indo-European Languages ; 2 Nouns; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Classification of Nouns; 2.2.1 Common Nouns; 2.2.1.1 Syntactic Properties of Common Nouns; 2.2.1.2 Interpretational Properties of Common Nouns; 2.2.1.3 Classification of Common Nouns; Count Nouns; Mass Nouns; Collective Nouns; Abstract Nouns; 2.2.2 Proper Names; 2.2.2.1 Syntactic Properties of Proper Names; 2.2.2.2 Interpretational Properties of Proper Names

4.4 Distinguishing Adjectives from Stative Verbs4.5 Summary; References; 5 Prepositions; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Basic Properties of Prepositions and Categorization; 5.3 The Verbal Nature of Prepositions; 5.3.1 Compatibility with Aspect Markers; 5.3.2 Prepositions Functioning as Verbs; 5.4 Summary; References; 6 Adverbs; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Basic Properties of Adverbs; 6.3 Classification of Adverbs; 6.3.1 Sentence-level Adverbs; 6.3.1.1 Temporal Adverbs; 6.3.1.2 Attitude Adverbs; 6.3.2 VP-level Adverbs; 6.3.2.1 Manner Adverbs; 6.3.2.2 VP-Level Temporal Adverbs; 6.3.2.3 Degree Adverbs

6.4 SummaryReferences; 7 Conjunctions; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Phrasal Conjunctions; 7.2.1 Conjunctions Conjoining Nouns or Noun Phrases; 7.2.2 Conjunctions Conjoining Adjectives or Adjectival Expressions; 7.2.3 Conjunctions Conjoining Verbs or Verb Phrases; 7.3 Clausal Conjunctions; 7.4 Summary; References; Part II Categories Uniquely Available in Mandarin ; 8 Classifiers; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Distinguishing Sortal Classifiers from Measure Words; 8.3 Categorization: Sortal Classifiers versus Measure Words; 8.3.1 Sortal Classifiers; 8.3.2 Measure Words; 8.3.2.1 Standard Measure Words