“Classifiers” are fascinating and have often been discussed, especially for Asian languages, but also for languages of Mesoamerica and South America and elsewhere. But what exactly is a “classifier”? I have long wondered about this, and recently I published a paper on numeratives. Why don’t I call them “numeral classifiers”? The reason is that I cannot think of a good definition of “classifier”. ChatGPT does not hallucinate when it tells us that numeral classifiers are the type of classifier that...