A study on the reduplication of Chinese classifiers

This paper is concerned with the reduplication in Chinese, especially the reduplicated form of classifiers. Generally, classifiers are to fulfill its syntactic function for nouns rather than lexical function. And individual classifiers can't function as main sentence constituent. However, the reduplicated form of classifiers can function as subject. So, besides the category of simple configuration in morphology, the reduplication of classifiers involves syntax. The reduplication brings the overall indication for the classifiers, and the reduplicated form can denote each member of a certain noun category which the classifier can stand for, which shows the morphological features of reduplication. The fact that reduplicated form of classifiers can function as subject with lexical meaning shows its syntactic feature.