Title: Research of the Measure Word "Wei" and Related Issues
Abstract: The paper,analyzing from cognitive and cultural perspectives,suggests that the measure word wei is used as a polite speech behaviour and it has close relationship to the fact of providing seats to the hearer.But in the sentence nin ji wei?,wei is a noun rather than a measure word,while the measure word ge is omitted and wei is used to imply person with its metonymic sense.
Publication Year: 2012
Publication Date: 2012-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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