文章通过对汉语量词和英语单位名词的语法化现象的描述，证实了广义隐喻是语法化的驱使力量。

This paper describes the grammaticalization of Chinese classifiers and English unit nouns to prove that metaphors in general sense are the main cause of grammaticalization.

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It could be the letter understood either graphically or audibly, and the variety of ways in which one can choose a basic unit in the study of linguistics means that you need a special word for that unit, which is characteristically "the tagmeme."

它既可以以图像的方式理解，也可以以声音的方式，因为每个人研究时选取的,基本的语言学单位不一样,所以需要一个特殊的名词来指代这个单位，这就是，法位“

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