A Comparative Study Of Chinese And Korean Corresponding Quantifiers

The quantifier is the part of speech, of which frequency in use is very high in daily life of Chinese people. In Korean language, though it is also existed, its richness can’t reach to Chinese language. In modern Chinese language, there are more than about600quantifiers. They have various types and their frequency in use is very high. Moreover, their using methods are very complicated. Though there are regulations when nouns and quantifiers are used together, because Chinese people have lived in Chinese language environment since childhood, regulations are too familiar for them to recognize exactly and it has no need for them to think regulations when they use them. For Korean people, it is one of difficulties about learning Chinese language. Besides, though quantifiers of both countries languages have similar functions, in the meaning of words, their using methods, and constructing methods of the sentence, there are many differences, which are big difficulties for Korean students to study Chinese quantifier. Therefore, Chinese quantifier is one of parts of speech which are most often mistaken by Korean students.The contrastive study on Chinese quantifier and its related Korean quantifier,(1) Contrastive study for the noun quantifier was processed by3parts such as unit quantifier, group quantifier, and size quantifier;(2) Contrastive study for the verb quantifier, quantifiers which are often used in daily life of both countries. After comparing all quantifiers, it was trying to organize differences of them. Further more it was trying to analyze differences of position of constructing methods of the sentence using quantifiers in Korean and Chinese and to analyze that emotional colors are different though meaning of quantifiers is same. Finally, after analyzing difficulties which are often faced by Korean students for studying the quantifier, it was also trying to suggest education measures for it.