Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Introduction Plurality and Classifiers across languages of China -- I Correlations between different types of quantification -- 1 Numeral classifiers with plural marking. A challenge to Greenberg -- 2 Reduplication in languages: A case study of languages of China -- II Numeral classifiers and their diachronic development -- 3 The Syntax and prosody of classifiers in Classical Chinese -- 4 Individuating classifiers in Early Southern Min (14th-19th centuries) -- III The expression of plurality -- 5 Plurality and the subclassification of Nouns in Classical Chinese -- 6 Number in Chinese: a diachronic study of zhū 諸 from Han to Wei Jin Nanbeichao Chinese -- 7 Bu-tong 'different' and nominal plurality in Mandarin Chinese -- 8 Plurality in the pronominal paradigms of Bai dialects -- 9 Frequentative aspect and pluractionality in Nuosu Yi -- 10 Quantificational structures in three-yearold Chinese-speaking children -- Author index -- Subject index