Study On The Formation And Development Of Chinese Dress Classifiers

Compared with Indo-European , classifier is an especial attributes to Sino-Tibetan. Meanwhile, it is the most important and difficult problem for teachers to teach foreign students. However, it is not a traditional grammar notion but a newly formed one, which gradually come into being accompanied with the historic development of Chinese. Because of the economy principle of language, these measuring words chiefly come from some nouns and verbs and certain adjectives. Though, meaning of some words are still changing. In general, we call it a grammatical process, which mainly composed of two aspects, namely, the development of those phrases which comprised of measuring words and the development of those words' meaning. In this thesis, we basically deal with the latter. According to the different senses of these words, we can sort out several semantic fields. Especially, in this thesis, we choose to investigate several unique subordinate fields of dress fields.On the whole, we talk about it from the following viewpoints:Firstly, we briefly introduce the significance of measuring words in Chinese linguistic history and simply summarized the modern situation of measuring words studying. Based on this, we put forward the primary writing purpose of this thesis.Secondly, we give a general explanation of dress classifiers and sort out those definite classifiers which involved in this thesis. Thirdly, in a diachronic viewpoint, we carefully describe the dress measuring fields of Before-Qin period, Han Dynasties, Wei-Jin periods etc. All together, there are seven diachronic periods referred. On this basis, we analyze their special attributes respectively and make out the factors which cause the withering or growing of the members in a same field.Fourthly, we focus on certain dress measuring words and try hard to clear up their developing process. Take them as example, we attempt to sum up the reasons which induce the presence of these measuring words and generalize the rules, according to which those words come into being. For example, the evolutive requisition of language is the dominating factor to the development of these measuring words and the words' unique Meaning is the fundamental factor to it. Besides, the subjective cognition of human being is another significant factor to the formation of these measuring words.At last, in a practical viewpoint, we make an examination into the explanation of some measuring words, which are given in Chinese Grand Dictionary.By doing this, we try to clarify the true meaning of some measuring words.