On Collocation Quantifiers "ke" and "li"
Fan Zhong-yuan · Journal of Guangxi Normal University · 2009
Individual quantifiers that can collocate respectively with the same noun are called collocation quantifiers.Keand li share the semantic feature of denoting something small and beadlike with the former modifies relatively larger and round objects while the latter smaller and round ones.Due to the vagueness of objects and the interference from people's cognition,keand li can form a pair of collocation quantifiers.