Semantics of pre-classifier adjectives

I argue in this paper that the pre-classifier adjectival modification of big/small is a distinctive linguistic phenomenon. Classifiers are ambiguous between a counting reading and a measure reading. The pre-classifier big/small modifies the quantity denoted by classifiers when they are characterized with the measure reading. From another perspective, the pre-classifier big/small deviates from adnominal and predicative big/small and they measure quantity only. This proposal correctly predicts that only a restricted set of adjectives like big/small can function as pre-classifier modifiers. Besides, I also claim that big/small quantifies over single atoms but not the plurality of atoms.