[ceciliawei]

Hi, I have a brand new apartment want to rent out. The compound is called Shenxianshu Dayuan 神仙树大院.It is nice and cozy with all the furnitures and household appliances.Every thing is new. There are livingroom, bathroom(western toilet),kitchen,1 bedroom, two balconies.

My apartment is near Tongzilin and Zijing area where many foreigners live in but less expensive than those places. 25 mins walk to Carrefuor, 10 mins to Starbucks and 5 mins to fresh market…

We just finished decorating the place and didn’t give the info to housing agent yet. If you are intersted, please contact me directly via email: [email protected]

An English speaking landlord could make you save the commission for estate agent 🙂

[ceciliawei]

Thanks Rob! I will check it out!

[ceciliawei]

Steven, you got the exact understanding! That is the thing I am wondering!

[ceciliawei]

Thanks Rick, the usages you mentioned are what we are looking for which like you understood the specifically quantifications via body part. And the concept of quantifier in Chinese language is not exactly the same as the structures of quantifications in English. We want to find out more of the cognitive concepts which in common and being different about how people measure things(include concrete and abstract things)via body part. And hopefully that may help the language teachers and learners during second language acquisition process .

Yes, u are right, mouthful is not a body part in a strict way, however, we consider this type of structure as markedness pattern.

In Chinese, some of this patterns are idoms, some are not. Here we are not concerning on idiom although there are some metaphor hide in those usages that formed idioms. Anyway, metaphor is everywhere of our languages.

That’s very helpful! I appreciate that! More phrases and questions are welcome 🙂

[ceciliawei]

Thanks tigerkuma 🙂

I learned three new usages from you, but it is not the type I am looking for.

Could think about more usages similar to “a head of straight hair”

number + organ name + (of) + object(usually noun)

So many thanks!

[ceciliawei]

Thanks Charlie! That’s great! I think the “a leg up” maybe not the exact kind of term I am looking for but likely close to it.

Usually it is the pattern like number+quantifier(here is an organ)+(of)+object(or other elemnets).

The other two are idioms with organ nouns but not used as a quantifier.

Thnaks! Hope more native English speakers give more ideas please!

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