Human subjective choice has contributed to the coming into being of quantifiers including Chinese quantifiers which have their own unique rhetorical function in terms of pragmatics.

• 摘要语言中计量单位词的产生有人的主观选择活动的参与，汉语量词在语用上具有鲜明的修辞功用，它的产生也具有人的主观选择性。