Comparison and Teaching Research of Individual Quantifiers between Chinese and Thai

Abstract

Quantifiers are a unique word category in the Sino-Tibetan language family, with late identification and special usage. Chinese quantifiers are generally divided into two categories: noun quantifiers and verbal quantifiers. Nominal quantifiers include individual quantifiers and non-individual quantifiers. Impersonal quantifiers are common to all languages ​​in the world, and individual quantifiers are one of the unique linguistic phenomena in the Sino-Tibetan language family. Therefore, in the process of teaching Chinese as a foreign language, teaching individual quantifiers has always been a difficult point. In recent years, with the deepening of research theories such as language typology and cognitive linguistic theory, the unique research value of individual quantifiers has gradually emerged and become a research hotspot. This article reviews the research on Chinese classifiers, Thai classifiers, comparison of Chinese and Thai classifiers and their teaching research. Current research focuses on the ontology research of individual classifiers, but rarely involves teaching practice. The research content lacks a certain degree of systematicity, and the research results are difficult to achieve. It can be directly applied to the teaching of quantifiers in Chinese as a second language. On this basis, this article puts forward some practical teaching suggestions.

Keywords: individual classifiers; comparative study of Chinese and Thai classifiers; research on the teaching of Chinese and Thai classifiers; teaching suggestions