PLURAL PREFIXES    複數前綴

GRAMMAR. THESE ARE REALLY PREPOSED PARTICLES MARKING THE PLURAL IN THE NOUNS THEY COME BEFORE.
Modern Chinese Criteria
複數 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hypernym
  • MANY　BIG in QUANTITY. (anc: 8/0, child: 3)
  • BIG　OF INTENSE SIZE OR DEGREE IN-RELATION-TO a STANDARD, OR IN-RELATION-TO the SIZE of a HUMAN. (anc: 7/0, child: 15)
  • SIZE　QUANTITY of a DIMENSION. (anc: 6/0, child: 2)
  • The Encyclopedia of Philosophy ( BORCHERT 2005) p.

    PLURAL

  • Quiddities. An Intermittently Philosophical Dictionary ( QUINE 1987) p. 152

    • Words (4 items)

    諸  zhū OC: klja MC: tɕi̯ɤ 56 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • pad.N+DENG3plural marker
    • pad.N-BEI4plural marker
    • pad.Npost-ZHO4NGplural marker
    • padNmark N as plural (translates Skt. plural selectively only, hence also before counted nouns)
    • padN.-V{NUM}+N{CL}plural marker used with post-counted nominal expression
    • padN.post-V{NUM}plural marker used before counted or quantified noun
    • padN.postYI1QIE4plural marker
    • padNdefinite: often cataphoricthe various
    • padNindefinitea number of
    • padNN=nonhu.mass?plural prefix used with unitemized N?? 諸財物
    群  qún OC: ɡlun MC: gi̯un 11 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nadNplural prefix
    • nadN.post-V{NUM}plural prefix 五百群賊
    二三  èr sān MC: nyijH sam OC: njis saam 10 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • VPadNdefinitethe severalCH
    眾  zhòng OC: tjuŋs MC: tɕuŋ 3 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • vadNdefinitethe (many) N
    • vadNgrammaticalisedin the plural 眾辭