Measure words in Mandarin Chinese
“Measure words”, commonly referred to as “classifiers” in linguistics, are utilized in conjunction with numbers to denote the quantity of a noun or, on occasion, an action. These terms, measure words, essentially classify or categorize the noun or action under consideration for counting.
How to annotate
The head of the measure head will be the noun it qualify.
The dependant will be the quantity and/or the determinant
Structures
- NUM + CLF + NOUN
- DET + CLF + NOUN
When a classifier is used without a finite number but with a determinant, it act like in english when we use an indefinite quantifier (some, many, few)