Japanese Numeral Classifiers: A Syntactic, Semantic, and Functional Profile
Pamela A. Downing · eScholarship (California Digital Library) · 1984
primary informant, Yoshiko Matsumoto, who not only produced consistently thoughtful responses to my endless questions, but who suggested fruitful new lines of investigation that I otherwise might never have considered.My efforts were also blessed with the cooperation of an exceptionally helpful dissertation committee: Chuck Fillmore, who, with his lively interest in Japanese and everything else, constantly prodded me along with both encouragement and thought-provoking questions; tfally Chafe, who has been an unflagging support and major influence throughout my graduate career; and Haruo Aoki, who first introduced me to Japanese and who has shared an apparently bottomless wealth of information about it with me ever since.Whatever merits this dissertation may possess are largely due to the efforts of these people; its shortcomings are due only to me.I have also profited greatly from the cooperation of other scholars, both here and in Japan, where I was able to study thanks to a fellowship from the Japanese Ministry of Education.