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 nature  of  human  beings.  As  a  result,  many  scholars,  such  as  psychologists, linguists,  pay  much  attention  to  this  field.  This  paper  just  reviews  the  previous  linguistic  studies  of emotions. Emotions,  defined  as  the  conscious  experience  of  affective  states,  are  central  to  our  existence  as human beings (Melanie Therese Davern, 2004). In modern Chinese dictionary, the emotion is defined as “the positive or negative mental reactions caused by the outer stimuli, such as anger, sadness and so on”. Since 19th century, psychologists have made in- depth studies into the emotions. Different scholars hold different opinions about emotions. Human’s emotion is caused by some stimuli, which include natural and social environment and human beings themselves, etc. The emotion is a subjective experience and a self- awareness  of  one’s  psychological  status.  Namely,  emotions  are  the  attitudes  human  beings  entertain towards  the  objective  entities.  When  a  thing  meets  human  beings’  needs  or  expectations,  their  positive emotions will be aroused. For example, a voracious reader tends to feel satisfied when he finds a good book. On  the  contrary,  negative  emotions  tend  to  be  triggered  when  a  thing  or  a  situation  fails  to  live  up  to people’s needs or expectations. 

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2.2 Previous studies of classifiers
The classifier is a special part of speech in Sino- Tibetan language family. It is a long period of time before the classifier is given a definition and designated as a part of speech. Ma Jianzhong (1898) is the first person to mention the classifier. In his opinion, the classifier is a subcategory of the noun and is used to  quantify  things.  Li  Jingxi  (1924)  put  forward  the  term  “liangci”  and  believed  that  the  classifier  is  a subcategory of the noun. Collocated with numerals, the classifier is employed to describe the amount of the people or things. Although he proposed the term of “liangci”, the classifier does not get rid of the fate of being a subcategry of the noun and the term ‘liangci” has not been accepted by other scholars. Liu Danqing (1988)  named  the  classifier  as  “helping  noun”  because  he  proposed  an  idea  different  from  others--  the classifier is not a subcategory of the noun but a subcategory of the pronoun. He believed that “the noun is the substance without limitation in amount. The limitation has to be expressed by the words similar to the noun. Those words are not nouns and we can call them “helping noun”. Lv shuxiang (1953) also sees the classifier as a subcategory in the category of the noun and named it as “adverbial noun”, which is the unit of things or behavior and can be called as “unit word” or “Liangci”. Later Lv (1982) changed his opinion, calling the classifier as “the word of unit” i本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。