名词可以分为两类:带有[+个体]特征的名词和带有[-个体]特征的名词。定量数词只能直接加在带有[+个体]特征的名词前面来计数。为了挽救定量数词的这一局限性,汉语和英语都选择了“量词插入”这一手段,但在汉语中“量词插入”属于词汇手段,即用附加手段将“量词”作为语素创造出一种新的双音节词汇;而在英语中“量词插入”则是句法手段,它必须满足“格检验式”这一句法规则。 Nouns can be divided into two categories: nouns with [+ individual] characteristics and nouns with [- individual] characteristics. Quantitative nouns can only be counted directly before the nouns with the [+ individual] signatures. In order to save this limitation of quantitative nouns, both Chinese and English chose the method of “quantifier insertion”, but in Chinese, “quantifier insertion” belongs to the lexical means, that means “quantifier ”As a morpheme to create a new two-syllable vocabulary; and in English “ quantifier insertion ”is a syntactic means, it must meet “ lattice test type ”the syntax rules.