The Word Order Types of Quantifier-noun Structure In Southern Ethnic Languages
The quantifier-noun Structure is the important quantitative methods for southern ethnic languages,with unique regional and ethnic characteristics.There are two types of quantity and name structures in southern ethnic languages:non referential and referential.The former has strong referential and definite referential functions,while the latter has descriptive and referential functions,as well as conceptual and subjective functions.The word order of the quantifier-noun structure is relatively rich.In some languages of the Miao Yao and Zhuang Dong language families,the basic order of the quantifier-noun structure is similar to the modern hinese,which is the result of structural reorganization,grammatical replication,and contextual absorption.The quantifier-noun tructure of the Zang-Mian language family is the same as the word order of early Chinese,and has typological similarities.Some languages in the South Asian language family have dual word order,while others have monolingual order,which is the result of the conversion between"Num+CL+N"and"N+Num+CL".The word order of the quantifier-noun structure in Austronesian languages consists of two types:noun preposition and noun postposition.Quantifiers do not appear,but they are modified by structural particles,which is a distinctive feature of Austronesian languages.
Ethnic languages of southen Chinaquantifier-noun structuregrammatical functionword order type
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