Abstract: “Yi N”is a temporary quantifier phrase,and “N” stands for the “location” of it. “Yi NX” has the descriptive semantic feature as a result of “Yi N” non-quantizing function, which confines itssyntactic distribution.By contrast,“Man N”is more flexible and diversified in the choice of the “N”, semantic functionand syntactic distribution.

Key words: Yi N, “Man(all over) N”, non-quantizing, semantic function, syntactic distribution