A Study on the Quantifiers of Nouns in the Guitou Dialect of Ruyuan
Quantifiers are a distinctive part of words in Chinese dialects.The quantifiers words in Guitou dialect form their own system.This article adopts a combination of point and surface methods,with nominal quantifiers as the research object,to classify and describe them and conduct case studies.It was found that the noun quantifiers in Guitou dialect are relatively abundant and retain some ancient Chinese quantifiers,but,the scope of meaning is relatively broad,and the combination of quantifiers and nouns is distinctive,reflecting the unique dialect cultural connotations of northern Guangdong dialect.