《量词的句法研究》秉承形式主义语言学的学术理念，试图证明人类语言有着普遍意义上的计数机制，以此实现语言的计数（ counting）。词库（ lexicon）里的名词没有可数名词和物质名词之分，只有经过计数机制的操作方可实现计数。《量词的句法研究》从英汉语言对比出发，提出量词语类是实施这种计数机制的普遍功能语类。作者认为，把人类语言划分为量词类型语言与非量词类型语言的类型学假设缺乏必要性，非量词类型语言中存在物质名词和可数名词之分，量词类型语言中名词都是物质名词的提法也因此失去了逻辑基础。

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      《量词的句法研究》的主要读者对象：从事英语及汉语语言教学与研究工作的广大高校教师，从事理论语言学研究的硕士、博士研究生，对语言学问题感兴趣的语言类高年级本科生及社会一般读者。

Introduction 
1.1 Preliminaries 
Greenberg (1972) makes a typological generalization that classifiers and number morphology are complementarily distributed to some extent and that languages without number morphology tend to have classifiers. Based on this generalization， languages are divided into two types: classifier languages and non-classifier languages (see also Li 1999; Cinque 2006; Li 2011 for some more discussions). In classifier languages， a classifier is obligatorily used when a noun occurs with a numeral. In non-classifier languages， classifiers are not needed for a noun to combine with a numeral， but the noun is number-marked. This contrast is exemplified by (1) and (2). 
(1) a. san zhi xiong 
three CL bear 
‘three bears’ 
b. san ping niunai 
three bottle milk