Syntactic function ncpost-V{NUM}.post-N

The borderline between containers and volume classifiers can be problematic at times. Also, for classical Chinese there is a rather interesting tendency for classifiers to be used in (long or short) lists. In general, the structural analysis of "classifier phrases" in Old Chinese remains highly controversial, of course.


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