Based on corpus research, this study analyzes the semantic and grammatical rules of Ge, and summarizes the learners' errors in the use of Ge both in Mainland China and Taiwan. In addition, this study also uses the questionnaire method to supplement the everyday contexts of Ge and discuss the differences and overuse of Ge by learners between Mainland China and Taiwan.
After comprehensive analysis, this study reveals the following five results. First, the scope and the context of Ge are relatively complex. There are no clear grammatical rules, but there are certain tendency laws. Second, Ge conforms to the lexical feature of neutral semantic prosody and cannot be used with the numeral Er ‘two’. Both individual numbers and large numbers can be modified with Ge. The study also finds that Ge and Jian have co-occurrence contexts when measuring events, but the use of Ge is usually limited to colloquial language, and the noun event is usually only modified by Ge. There is no semantic overlap between Ge and Zhong. Third, although there is no significant difference between the collocation of Ge and nouns, native speakers in Taiwan exhibit a more obvious overuse phenomenon in the selection of classifiers before professional appellations. Fourth, due to different language environments, learners from Mainland China and Taiwan have certain differences in the discrimination of Ge and its synonymous classifiers. In terms of the distinction between the choice of classifiers before professional appellations and classifiers before large numbers, learners in Taiwan perform worse. Fifth, influenced by the Familiarity Effect, the use of Ge by learners is closely related to the use of native speakers both in Mainland China and Taiwan.