Syntactic function ncc
count noun, noun that can be counted by individual items and are actually found counted.
One might have left all these words as simply n. As it stands this group is just a preliminary and partial list of nouns that are actually counted. This category should perhaps be subdivided into ncpost-v(NU), ncpost-ncl etc. in order to enable one to study the culture and natural history of counting as accessible in Chinese texts. As it stands this categorisation remains quite unsystematic and haphazard since most countable nouns are classified simply as n. One might consider calling nc only nouns where these are actually counted. One might also simply abandon the category and incorporate its examples into the straightforward category n. The problem with that is that after it is done one will not be able to retrieve these interesting cases …
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