Qin Xiaohang. Concurrent functions of Hawyiengz Zhuang classifiers

Dallas: SIL International and Mahidol University, 2007. In Brian Migliazza (editor), Mon-Khmer Studies Journal, 37:165-178.Unlike those of other languages, the classifiers of Hawyiengz Zhuang can act as a subject pronoun, an object pronoun, a pradicate, an attribute, an adverbial or a complement alone and communicate new meanings of both words and grammar in certain sentences. This current functions of the classifiers of Hawyiengz Zhuang are confined to give conditions when they act as a subject pronoun, a predicate or an object pronoun alone. And they indicate the shape of the thing when they act as an attribute. and those that can act as adverbials and complements are mainly the classifiers for actions.