The Quantifiers Research In Huangshi Dialect

The existence and extensive use of quantifiers are unique linguistic phenomenon in Sino-Tibetan languages. Today, the quantifier research articles are emerging one after another, the breadth and depth of quantifiers has been expanding continuously.In Modern Chinese, the quantifier is an important part of speech, the collection of feature words in every dialect always contains quantifiers, reflecting the distinction between the words on the features in different dialects.The quantifiers in a dialect also provide us materials and clues to explore the characteristics of this dialect, including language behind the phenomenon of social, cultural, folk-custom, psychology and many other factors that affect language use.This paper attempts to comprehensively describe the quantifiers system of Huangshi dialect on the basis of the predecessors'research and my own investigations. First I review and describe the quantifier naming, classification and study of modern Chinese quantifiers status, Huangshi geographic location and dialect research status. Followed by introducing special nominal measure words and verbal measure words of Huangshi dialect and their usage; quantifiers and related components with a special combination of syntactic structure, in order to seek a comprehensive summary of the characteristics of quantifiers; The changes in forms of quantifiers to signify universal indication, separate indication and approximate quantity.In this process, for the special usage as demonstrative pronoun and structural particle of quantifier "a" in Huangshi dialect, recalling its grammaticalization course in history, with the actual conditions in dialect to initially analyse its causes.