汉英准量词概论

An Introduction to Quasi-classifiers both in Chinese and English

随着人类物质生活的日益发达和精神生活的日益丰富,出现了越来越多与抽象名词搭配的量词。通过观察发现,量词计量功能减弱,将物质量化已不再是此类量词的主要功能,此类量词的重要功能在于表达形、态、情、色彩等修辞效果,同时我们称这类量词为准量词。文章在介绍汉英量词研究的基础上,采用认知语言学中的映射理论,界定汉英准量词并对其语义特征作简要的分析。

With the development of human physical and spiritual life,more and more classifiers collocating with abstract nouns have come into existence.Through observation,it is discovered that the measurement function of such classifiers weakens,and that to measure the entities is no longer the main function of such classifiers,while it is their rhetorical function of expressing form,state,emotion,color,etc that strengths.And such classifiers are regarded as quasi-classifiers.Based on the classifier researches in Chinese and English,this paper defines the quasi-classifiers clearly and also analyzes their semantic features briefly according to mapping theory in cognitive lin-guistics.