Discussion on the Lexicological Value of Bamboo and Silk Documents in the Field of Quantifiers
Long Shi-ping · 2009
Batches of books unearthed in the latest 100 years,inscribed on Bamboo and Silk in the period of Pre-Qin,Han dynasties and Wei Jin,which provided a large number of new and authentic materials for compilation of dictionaries.There are 188 quantifiers in the 78 batches of books inscribed on Bamboo and Silk,announced already,40% of which modified some former conclusions out of books handed from ancient times.The value of quantifiers in Bamboo and Silk for compilation of dictionaries is mainly in the following four aspects:evidence supplement,explanation correction,meaning supplement and original example advancement.And the lexicological value of many quantifiers is usually presented in many aspects.