Numeral Classifier Systems: The Case of Japanese
Numeral Classifier Systems: The Case of Japanese
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数字分类系统：日语案例
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1996
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Pamela A. Downing
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作者：
Pamela A. Downing
数词系统考虑了日语数词系统的功能意义，其结论基于从日语口头和书面文本中提取的500个量词结构的语料库。有趣的是，虽然日语系统似乎至少在表面上符合关于其语义结构的普遍预测，但本研究报告称，在实际使用中，量词的语义作用很小--它们很少携带任何无法从上下文或量词出现的名词中获得的词汇信息。然而，这一系统在提供类似代词的回指成分和标记指称物的个体性和数字信息的新颖性等语用特征方面确实发挥了重要作用。由于这些原因，量词系统深深地参与了日语语法的许多子系统，并且该系统的消亡（有时传言即将到来）将对整个语言的结构产生重大影响。
Numeral Classifier Systems considers the functional significance of the Japanese numeral system, its conclusions based on a corpus of 500 uses of classifier constructions drawn from oral and written Japanese texts. Interestingly, although the Japanese system appears to conform at least superficially to universalistic predictions about its semantic structure, this study reports that in actual usage, the semantic role of classifiers is slight — only very rarely do they carry any lexical information unavailable from the context or the noun with which the classifier occurs. It does appear, however, that the system has an important role to play in providing pronoun-like anaphoric elements and in marking pragmatic distinctions such as the individuatedness of referents and the newness of numerical information. For these reasons, the classifier system is deeply involved in a number of subsystems of Japanese grammar, and the demise of the system (sometimes rumored to be impending) would have substantial implications for the structure of the language as a whole.