About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 77. Chapters: Parts of speech, Noun, Part of speech, Adjective, Adverb, Pronoun, Article, Syntactic category, Phrase, Infinitive, Grammatical particle, Measure word, Noun phrase, Copula, Adjectival phrase, Modal particle, Expletive, Grammatical conjunction, Predicative verb, Chinese classifier, Preposition and postposition, Causative, Contraction, Demonstrative, Procedure word, Determiner, Predicate, Preverb, Constituent, Coverb, Complementizer, German modal particle, Function word, Casally modulated prepositions, Pro-form, Interjection, Adpositional phrase, Adverbial clause, Converb, Quirky subject, Adjectival participle, Pro-verb, Hedge, Adverbial genitive, Pro-sentence, Grammatical modifier, Determiner phrase, Adverbial participle, Interrogative word, Collateral adjective, Describing speech, Discourse particle, Prepositional adverb, Adjectival noun, Adverbial phrase, Nota accusativi, Quotative, Correlative, Nexus grammar, Fixed expression, Verb phrase, Inflectional phrase, Determinans, PAVPANIC. Excerpt: In the modern Chinese languages, words known as classifiers or measure words (simplified Chinese: traditional Chinese: pinyin: liangci) are used along with numbers to define the quantity of a given object, or with demonstratives such as "this" and "that" to identify specific objects. Classifiers are bound morphemes: they do not have any meaning by themselves and are always used in conjunction with a noun or another content word. Whenever a noun is preceded by a number or a demonstrative, a classifier must come in between. The choice whether to use a number or demonstrative at all, however, is up to the speaker; classifiers may often be avoided by simply using a bare noun. Phrases consisting of a number, a classifier, and a noun, such as (yi ge ren, one- person), are known as "classifier phrases." Some linguists have prop...
