Chinese classifiers (measure words): A phenomenon that is hard to translate

• Authors: Magdalena Plinta
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Due to the fact that Chinese and Polish belong to completely different language families I intend to discuss one grammatical phenomenon that appears in the Chinese language. In the first part I will focus on the explanation of the term “classifier”, the second part will deal with the methods which Polish and Chinese teachers use to differently explain classifiers. Through this article I will depict the different ways the world is perceived as a result of using different language systems.

Keywords

EN

classifier; measure word; Chinese students; Polish students; countable nouns; mass nouns

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego
• Journal: Studia Linguistica
• Year: 2015
• Issue: 34
• Pages: 117-123

Contributors

author

Magdalena Plinta

• Uniwersytet Wrocławski