Much ado about Zero, and Nothing
In standard Chinese, 番 fān is polyfunctional and polysemic morpheme which belongs to the class of classifiers used both for nouns and for verbs. The verbal classifier 番 fān is used to indicate the semelfactivity of the process carried out with a certain duration. The nominal classifier 番 fān is gene...
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2024
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| 要約: | In standard Chinese, 番 fān is polyfunctional and polysemic morpheme which belongs to the class of classifiers used both for nouns and for verbs. The verbal classifier 番 fān is used to indicate the semelfactivity of the process carried out with a certain duration. The nominal classifier 番 fān is generally reserved for nouns linked to speech. 番 fān initially means “paw of wild beasts” and its diachronic evolution goes through several stages before arriving at what we see in today’s Chinese. |
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