A Cognitive View on the Study of Individual Classifier in Chinese
汉语个体量词认知研究述评

Individual classifiers primarily exist in Sino-Tibetan languages.Similar to the closed word class (determiners,pronouns etc) functionally,classifiers can not be used as a component separately,and usually they have to combine numbers (or pronouns) and nouns together to make up phrases in sentence.In this review,several possibilities to the reason why a large number of individual classifiers developed in modern Chinese language were summarized firstly.Then the mechanism of bidirectional selection and constrai...