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Spatiality and Its Semantic Consequence of the Quantitative Expression “一CCN” in Mandarin Chinese Read chapter Read first chapter

2020 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

The Reclassification of Chinese Nominal Measure Words Based on Definition Mode

Authors : Wang Enxu, Yuan Yulin

Published in: Chinese Lexical Semantics

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

The classification of nominal measure words is a long-standing problem in Chinese syntactics circle. This paper tries to solve it based on dictionary definition. Through analyzing the definition mode, we find there are some rules hidden in the meaning of nominal measure words, which can be used to reclassify these words into the following categories. When the definition mode is “yongyu(used before)…xing (shape)…”, they belong to the subcategory of highlighting shape of things, such as “tiao (strip)”; when the definition mode is “yongyu (used before) fen (divide)…”, they fall into the subcategory of highlighting constitutive aspect of things, such as “ban (piece)”; when the definition mode is “yongyu (used before)… cheng (become)…”, they fit into the subcategory of highlighting agentive aspect of things, such as “dui (pair)”, etc.…. Compared with the previous classifications, this paper unifies the classification criteria, and enhances the universality and exclusiveness of classification.

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Footnotes
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Data sources: (1) Except for some nominal measure words added by authors in this paper, most of them are cited from the reference [7], total 179; (2) The definitions of nominal measure words mainly refer to references [8–10].
 
2
The following kinds of nominal measure words can only be used before certain nouns. Therefore, it is necessary to annotate their collocation objects when explaining them.
 
3
According to Qualia Structure theory, the so-called constitutive aspect of things refers to what a thing is constituted by,what the thing can constitute, and whether there is a "part-whole" relationship with other things [13, 19].
 
4
According to Qualia Structure theory, the so-called agentive aspect of things focuses on how things are formed, by a natural way, an artificial way, or through a special causal relationship [13, 19].
 
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Metadata
Title
The Reclassification of Chinese Nominal Measure Words Based on Definition Mode
Authors
Wang Enxu
Yuan Yulin
Copyright Year
2020
Book
Chinese Lexical Semantics

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-38188-2

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-38189-9

Copyright Year: 2020

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38189-9_11

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