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Much in English is identified to be a mass quantifier in that it has a mass structure. In a recent study in nominal domains (Borer (2005), a functional head, namely Div(ided), has been proposed; Div head takes a noun in its complement, and makes the noun a countable object. For example, in English, Div is realized as plural morpheme -s: without -s a noun cannot be counted as in *three cat (cf. three cat-s). Quantifier much is mass as it is not compatible with a plural marker -s that realizes Div head (e.g., *much cat-s or *much water-s). Rather, it can appear with a noun in a non-countable context where a plural maker -s is absent, as in much cat or much water. In Chinese, there is a quantifier dian that appears to be similar to much in English in its distribution. This paper examines the distribution of dian, and proposes a potential structure of the quantifier similar to that of much in English: Like much, dian does not have a functional projection of DivP, and has a NP complement that denotes mass meaning. This paper also compares dian to another quantifier, xie, in the language, known to have a similar meaning to dian. As this paper shows, dian cannot be treated in the same way as xie, as it lacks DivP.

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I. Introduction
 II. Structure of English much
 III. Distribution of dian and Its Structure
  3.1. The distribution of dian
  3.2. The structure of dian
 IV. Comparison to Quantifier xie
 V. Conclusion
 Works Cited
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• Kim, Kyumin [ Cheongju University ]

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학연구 [The Jungang Journal of English Language and Literature]

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  계간

• pISSN

  1598-3293

• 수록기간

  1968~2025

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  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 810