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Peer reviewedYeh, Ling-Hsia – Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, 1993
The device of employing adverbs as quantifiers is common in daily use of Modern Chinese. Quantifiers that have the closest glossed meanings are compared, based partly on a survey of 13 native speakers of Mandarin. Findings suggest that certain quantifiers cannot be characterized uniformly because of inherently different properties. (Contains six…
Descriptors: Adverbs, Chinese, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics
