A complex action, like hammering a nail, can be broken down into its constituent actions – grasping, striking, reaching – just as a sentence can be broken into its units – nouns, verbs, adjectives.
The pragmatic reinforcers concerned in this paper are negative polarity items (NPIs) in the form of 'one'-unit word1-noun, as shown in (1).2 (1) 不浪費一粒糧食 bú__làngfèi__[yí__lì__liángshí] NEG__waste__one__CLF__food (They) did not waste a bit of food.
The classifier alone is sufficient to delimit the basic unit of its associated noun, so the noun which appears earlier in the context is free from repetition.
Relative clauses preceding numeral phrases modify the whole numeral phrase, while relative clauses appearing in the position between the unit word and the noun of a numeral phrase modify only the noun.
Relative clauses associated with numeral phrases may appear in two positions: (a) the position between the unit word and the noun and (b) the position preceding the numeral (Huang et al. 2009).
First, description should ideally be based on (or, at least, be sensitive to) whole systems (e.g. ASPECT, EVIDENTIALITY, PROJECTION), units (e.g. noun class, verbal group, clause), or experiential domains (e.g. motion, possession, space, etc)., just to mention a few.
The SI symbols for the metric units are intended to be identical, regardless of the language used but unit names are ordinary nouns and use the character set and follow the grammatical rules of the language concerned.
Unit names are ordinary nouns and although they use the character set and follow the grammatical rules of the language concerned for example "", "", each unit has a symbol that is independent of language, for example "km" for "kilometre", "V" for "volts" etc.
Language comprehension, however, is inherently linked to processing whole sentences that are typically made of different semantic units (at least two, noun and verb) and are organized according to specific syntactic rules.
In contrast, the conceptual unit represented by a common noun pair (e.g. "TRAFFIC OFFICER") is more abstract and general.
It's also natural when the entity being quantified is a continuous extent and the count noun refers to units of measurement, such as "21 years old" and "70 miles an hour"; like the 1-11 scale on Nigel Tufnel's favourite amplifier in This Is Spinal Tap, the units are arbitrary.
