从《初刻拍案惊奇》看概数词“把”的来源

A Research of the Origin of Ba(把) Based on Chuke Pai'an Jingqi(初刻拍案惊奇)

明代小说《初刻拍案惊奇》可以反映概数词“把”的来源:“个+把+人”是最早形式;其中“X”不管是量词还是“百”、“千”、“万”等词,都具有“记数单位”的性质。“十”不能作为记数单位,因此不能说“十把”。

According to the researoh from the relative materials from the novel Chuke Pai ＇an Jingqi（初刻拍案惊奇） of Ming（明） Dynasty, the expression Gebaren（个把人） is the origin of X＋Ba（把）,in which X has a sense of counting unit,whether it is a quantifier or a numeral like Bai（百）,Qian（千） and Wan（万）.However, Shiba（十把） was never used in the novel because Shi（十） was not a numeral then.