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A Study On The Quantifier Of "12th Floor"

Posted on:2016-03-16Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y Y GaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2175330461999990Subject:Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
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There are 162 quantifiers in Shier Lou, including two kinds: special quantifier and borrowed quantifier. The special quantifier has 99, Special quantifier includes two subsystems: nominal quantifier and verbal quantifier. The 55 individual quantifiers are divided 21 groups, including measurement of human, animal, language, parts of thing and etc. There are 63 borrowed quantifiers in Shier Lou and there are 15 borrowed verbal quantifiers in it. From the semantics, nominal quantifier can also be divided into shape quantifier and shapeless quantifier. There are 46 shape quantifiers appear in Shier Lou,Generally, quantifiers are not used in a sentence independently, Quantifiers usually not used in a sentence independently, and sometimes it can be used in a sentence independently. But typically, quantifiers are used in sentence elements with numeral, noun or pronoun. The semantic characteristics of nominal quantifier are: accuracy and fuzziness, concreteness, abstraction and hyperbole, similar and intersectionality, ambiguity and intersectionality.
Keywords/Search Tags:ShierLou(十二楼), classifier, grammatical features, semantic properties, rhetoric characteristics
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