A Study Into The Timequantifier Of The Contemporary Chines Language

A Study into the Time Quantifier of the Contemporary Chinese Language Thispaper which combines some discriptions and explanations, analyses the languagephenomenons of using the Time quantifier in contemporary Chinese language, andfocuses on definition, classification and semantic features of the Time quantifier.The situation of research on Time quantifier is discussed in the article. It provesthat theres is still a lot of room for studying Time quantifier such as somedisagreements with the definition, classification, semantemes, and expressive function,which are all appropriate areas to start the research.This essay gives the definition,which demonstrates that the Time quantifier, as aquantitative measure, can present the amount of time while things exist or after theaction, as well as the amount of time during the action. The intrinsic meaning of mostTime quantifier has a strong sense of time. Without other words, they can expresstime with the combination of number words. However, the meaning of time lying insome of Time quantifier is limited. With number words, this kind of words only canmeasure time by working with other words such as time words and verbs.Time quantifier are neither object-measuring words, or action-measuring words.They are one of the kind. The grammar of these words are largely distinct from themeaning of vocabulary and momentum.The one-of-the-kind Time quantifier have many categories. Typical members areclassified by prototype; intensive, neutral,and mild Time quantifiers are divided byhow much time meaning they have got; fixed, regular, conventional and infinitiveTime quantifiers are defined by how solid the time meaning is.All of these work greatly improve our research on Time quantifier. These wordsare non-independent, cannot be used independently, which must work with otherwords. This paper discusses further the function of the compound made of Timequantifier, pointing out that these words possess order semantic features. Thecompound indicates the significanse of estimating time and the importance of passingtime.