基于范疇化理論的中英文量詞比較研究.pdf

1、As an important element in the Chinese language, classifiers have become a hot issue incontemporary linguistics both at home and aboard. In the current study, a cognitiveperspective is employed to investigate the nominal

2、 classifier system because nominalclassifiers provide a unique insight into the mechanism of categorization of the world byhuman beings. This thesis firstly reviews a number of articles on this issue scattered overdiffer

3、ent publications, and then distinguishes two kinds of classifiers: measure ones forquantifying, and categorization ones for categorizing nouns according to their inherentproperties or our interaction with them: The latte

4、r, which is the focus of this study, isfurther.divided into three subclasses on a cognitive basis to reveal the basic means adoptedby human beings in the process of turning the massive world into easy-to-perceiveconcepts

5、. Based on this division system, a cognitive comparison between Chineseclassifiers and English partitives is made in order to figure out what is there that iscommon or different in the way all human beings think.keywords