CLASSIFIERS  

NUMBER MARKER FOR COUNTED THINGS. [[THIS HAS TO BE MOVED AND REVISED. ]]
Hypernym
  • PARTICLEA WORD that NOT VERBAL AND NOT NOMINAL. [NOTE THAT THE GRAMMATICAL PARTICLES HAVE NOT BEEN FOCUSSED SO FAR IN THE SYSTEM AND NO SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS HAS BEEN APPLIED SO FAR.]
    • WORDSOUND IMAGE of a CONCEPT. (Leibniz, Couturat p. 432)
      • SOUNDWHAT CAN be HEARD.
        • HEARPERCEIVE SOUND....
Old Chinese Criteria
人 is the measure word for persons.

匹 is the measure word for horses.

乘 is the measure word for carriages.

    Words

    人  rén MC: nyin OC: njinCH 3 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • npost-V{NUM}.postadNindividuals counted of the type NCH
    把  bǎ OC: praaʔ MC: pɣɛ 2 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • ncpost-V{NUM}.+Nclassifiermeasure word
    枚  méi OC: mɯɯl MC: muo̝i 2 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • ncpost-V{NUM}.+Nclassifieritem measure
    番  fān OC: phan MC: phi̯ɐn 2 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • ncpost-V{NUM}(.+N)classifieritem
    • ncpost-V{NUM}.+Nclassifieritem measure
    頭  tóu OC: doo MC: du 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • ncpost-V{NUM}.+Nclassifiermeasure word for domestical animals
    眾  zhòng OC: tjuŋs MC: tɕuŋ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • ncpost-V{NUM}.post-Nclassifierclassifier for persons of whom there is a large number
    • npost-V{NUM}.postadNTAIPINGGUANGJI: classifier 殺賊萬餘眾 "killed more than one hundred thieves"
    名  míng OC: meŋ MC: miɛŋ 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • n{adN}person

    Existing SW for

    Here are Syntactic Words already defined in the database: