Collocation of Individual Nouns with Measure Words in Terms of Ambiguity in "Three jin of Fish"

The structure which is characteristic of "number + measure word + individual noun", is ambiguous when it is used to denote numbers & quantities of things. It has some semantic changes when the same heterogeneous individual noun collocates with individual quantifiers or measure words. W...

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Veröffentlicht in:Wuhan da xue xue bao. Wuhan University Journal. Ren wen ke xue ban 2007-05, Vol.60 (3), p.317-322
Hauptverfasser: Long, Tao, Yang, Fengbin
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Sprache:chi
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Zusammenfassung:The structure which is characteristic of "number + measure word + individual noun", is ambiguous when it is used to denote numbers & quantities of things. It has some semantic changes when the same heterogeneous individual noun collocates with individual quantifiers or measure words. When the same heterogeneous individual noun is in collocation with measure words, it denotes the kind of homogeneous "individual" things in the human sense, highlighting the features of things. The restrictive factors for semantic changes are caused by two aspects: measures words & individual nouns. The former classifies the "kind" of things from the perspective of the spatial features; the "interest" principle in the process of collocation of individual nouns with measure words results in a series of semantic changes. The latter shares three semantic features of different levels: "[animate]," "[individual homogeneity]," "[feature salience]," which restrict the choices of collocation of the interior sub-type of individual nouns w
ISSN:1671-881X