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Forbes wrote: A word about classifiers. I looked up "classifier" in my dictionary (a very good one) and it does not define it! I turned to dictionary.com and found the following definition: A word or morpheme used in some languages in certain contexts, such as counting, that...

A word about classifiers. I looked up "classifier" in my dictionary (a very good one) and it does not define it! I turned to dictionary.com and found the following definition: A word or morpheme used in some languages in certain contexts, such as counting, that indicates the semantic class...

I have got to the stage where I am not sure excatly what it is that we are argiung about, other than whether or not Chinese is monsyllabic. Perhaps you could explain again waht the basic points are that you wish to make. My basic point is that Chinese is monosyllabic, and that contentions that...