Corpora-based SFL Contrastive Study on English Extended Numeratives and Chinese Numeral + Measure Configuration

In SFL model English Extended Numeratives are parallel to Numeral +Measure pattern in Chinese. This paper conducts a contrastive research on the two patterns based on Corpora. The research reveals that the Conflation operator Head/Thing can be processed in the above Chinese pattern but not in its English counterpart; in Chinese Numeral+Measure the logical sub-modifications are relatively closed; the two pattern have more in common in construing quantifying and exact Numertives than in ordering and exact Numeratives. Different from English Chinese semantic category of Measure and Quality can be conflation-realized, and either can have NO concrete expressions if not taking Tonicity. For the periodic configuration of information Epithet and Classifier can be transfer-located in English. In both patterns interpersonal meaning can be realized through Epithet or Connotations, besides that English swear words and Chinese repetition structure can also perform interpersonal function. The repetition and antitheses in Chinese Numeral +Measure pattern are also important Cohesion devices.