The Study On The Formation Of Chinese Quantifiers From The Extraterritorial Perspective

This article is aiming to study the formation process of the concept of Chinese quantifier from the extraterritorial perspective. Since that the research from the western countries and Japan have a great impact on Chinese language study, this article takes Chinese grammar books and Chinese textbooks written by western and Japan scholars as the object of the study, and tries to describe the study of the definition, name, generic parts of speech, internal classification, syntactic positions of the Chinese quantifiers. This article also tries to outline the propagation path of the concept of Chinese quantifier between the western countries, Japan and China.The thesis contains six chapters. The first chapter analyze the current studies of quantifiers and find that the absence of lasted and extraterritorial study of the quantilfiers. It also defines the time and geography. The achievements of quantifiers study from western Chinese grammar books is analyzed in the second chapter, quantifiers are divided into three categories as numerals, classifiers and attendant noun. The focus of the third chapter is to describe studies in Japan about the Chinese quantifiers from Jianghu dynasty. In the fourth chapter exists the research of quantifiers in china, which started with the publish of the book named "Ma Shi Wen Tong". And we compare studies of the three places from the aspects of the quantifiers’name, definition, independence, internal classification and find their similarity and difference, whose aim is to outline the propagation path of the concept of Chinese quantifiers.