On Interior Adjustment of Language Structure from the Grammaticalization of Classifiers
AN Fen · Hanyu xuexi · 2009
The thesis,on the basis of the relative studies on the emergence,development and grammaticalization of classifiers,proposes that the language structure itself has an interior capability of adjustment.Any variety of language must progress under its language structure within bounds,not arbitrarily,and the grammaticalization of classifiers brings about under combined action of the three aspects:the borrowing of lexicon;the analogy according to language structure and the reanalysis of language element's function,which do reflect the interior capability of adjustment of language structure.