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Both anaphors and quantifiers are ubiquitous in natural language and include variant expressions to serve various functions in sentences and discourse. Anaphors include the third person pronouns like tā 他/她 ‘he/she’ (hereafter pronoun), reflexives like zìjǐ 自己 ‘self’ and tā/tāzìjǐ 他/她自己 ‘him/herself’ (hereafter reflexive), and proper names like Lǐ Sì/Zhāng Sān 李四/張三, while quantifiers include měige 每個 ‘every’ and  yīxiē 一些 ‘some’, and quantificational adverbs like dōu 都 ‘all, each’. These expressions serve an important discourse function in promoting a co…