This paper provides a novel analysis of plural marker –men in Mandarin as a modifier: –men does not realize a head such as Num(ber); rather, it adjoins to a DP in the nominal structure. The proposed analysis can account for defining properties of –men as a modifier, such as the interpretation of a bare noun with respect to –men, lack of agreement, co-occurrence with a classifier, and so on, which cannot be accounted for by the previous approaches that view –men as realizing a head, such as Num, in the nominal projection. The consequences of this paper support the recent view that the syntax of plural markers is not homogeneous but heterogeneous.

中文翻译：

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复数标记句法的变化：以复数-Men in普通话为例

本文对汉语中的复数标记-men作为修饰语进行了新颖的分析：相反，它与名义结构中的 DP 相邻。所提出的分析可以解释将 –men 的属性定义为修饰语，例如关于 –men 的裸名词的解释、缺乏一致性、与分类词的共现等等，这些不能由以前的观点接近——男人在名义投影中实现了一个头，比如 Num。本文的结果支持了最近的观点，即复数标记的句法不是同质的而是异质的。