Embedded adjectives in Chinese and Vietnamese quantitative noun structures from a cognitive perspective

From a cognitive perspective, this paper provides an in-depth analysis of the embedded adjectives in the structure of Chinese and Vietnamese quantitative nouns. It employs the theory of distance iconicity and image schema to reveal the cognitive strategies of these languages. The conceptual components within the structure of numeral classifiers are close, and thus they should also be close in language form.
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Embedded adjectives in Chinese and Vietnamese quantitative noun structures from a cognitive perspective