Study On "个" As An Individual Classifier

The study of"the uses extension of GE"began from Jinxi Li and Shiru Liu. They are the first to define the concept of GE, which indicates the phenomenan that classiffier GE often replacing other classiffiers in use in modern Chinese. Based on the current study, the article aims to test the extent of GE in modern Chinese by comprehensively inspecting the distribution of GE. Meanwhile, the article tries to describe the historical trace of GE. Then we will give the cognative explanation.Chapter 1, Introduction, selected topic and its foundation, summarizing existing reseach, the idea of the article, theory basis, research method, liguistic data.Chapter 2, Analyzing the distribution of GE from the pespective of classiffier category. Proposing a new category system based on various classiffier classifying systems. According to the new system, discussing which classiffier can be replaced by GE.Chapter 3, Analyzing the distribution of GE from the pespective of Noun category. Extracting six kinds of nouns at random, such as appelletion nouns, location nouns, animal nouns, plant nouns, object nouns, abstract nouns. Inspceting the possibility of matching GE with them, and the range and frequency of matching possibility.Chapter 4, other liguistic elements that affecting the distribution of GE, including numeral, demonstrative pronoun, ambiguity of words, phenomenon of homophone, and style of liguistic.Chapter 5, the development track of GE in Chinese history. Insepcting the range change of GE from Han Dynasty, Wei-Jin- the South–the North Dynastys, Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynastys to Song and Yuan Dynastys, until Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty.Chapter 6, Conclusive Part.Three appendices attched——Nouns can be matched with GE from Yuqing Fang , Shuxiang Lv, and Jie He.