Classifiers: the many ways to profile ‘one’ - a case study of Taiwan Mandarin
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Taipei: Chinese Language Computer Society & World Scientific Publishing Company. International Journal of Computer Processing of Oriental Languages, 24, 79 (2012). — 16 p. — Online ISSN 2010-0205Due to the lack of a rigorous methodology and explicit criteria to distinguish between classifiers (C) and measure words (M), previous inventories of Mandarin C’s, or geti liangci 個體量詞, vary greatly. Based on the insight that an M in a Chinese [Num C/M N] phrase is semantically substantive, while a C is semantically redundant and thus does not block numeral quantification or adjectival modification to the noun, this paper further proposes that while C/M both function as a multiplicand mathematically, with Num as the multiplier, C’s value is necessarily 1 and M is not, thus 1). Cognitively, however, the semantically redundant C serves to profile an inherent semantic feature of N and thus selects a narrow class of N’s. With these explicit distinctions between C and M, we then re-examine the inventory of C’s put forth in 國語日報量詞典 Mandarin Daily News dictionary.
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