客語形容詞連結標記研究

This project investigates the associative marker gai in Hakka complex noun phrases, exploring its syntax and semantics. It is argued that the gai marker hosts a functional projection ClassP in the nominal structure and is shown to encode the concept of partitivity, namely denoting a potentially specific subset of a larger set. This analysis of gai is shown to fit with the cross-linguistic picture regarding classification and partitivity.