汉语史上名量词语法化问题

On Grammaticalization of Noun Quantifiers in the History of the Chinese Language——A Co-discussion on Study of Chinese Quantifiers from a Chinese Perspective

关于汉语量词的性质、范围和作用有两种不同看法,我们认为量词的主要作用就是计量。量词语法化经历了漫长过程,远古时代出现了原始度量词。殷商时代个体量词萌生。周秦、两汉时期度量词已比较完备,个量词大量产生,其他类量词不断出现,数量名语序已确立,形成了量词的语感。魏晋时期是量词语法化初步完成的时期,现代汉语1/3的量词已在那时产生。

There are two different views concerning the character, coverage and function of quantifiers in Chinese. We insist that quantifiers play the main part of expressing notions of quantity. The grammaticalization of Chinese quantifiers went through a considerably long course which started in the period of the Oracle script. Down to the Zhou, the West and the East Han Dynasties classic Chinese had already developed a complete system of quantifiers of measurement. Later large quantities of quantifiers of number occurred one after another, including other kinds of quantifiers. The grammaticalization of Chinese quantifiers had basically been established in the Wei and the Jin Dynasty, when one third quantifiers in modern Chinese appeared.