Abstract：Abstract: The present paper attempts to provide a unified account of “dou” in Mandarin Chinese, which is widely regarded as a universal quantifier in the literature, based on its resemblance to “all” in English. It is pointed out that existing studies, which have mostly been conducted in purely grammatical or pragmatic terms, lack an interactive perspective that combines both. It is argued that “dou” is an intensifier, whose use usually elicits a domain, explicit or implicit, which can be determined either by the morphosyntactic structure containing “dou” or by pragmatic reasoning based on the addressee’s world knowledge. Hence, an adequate analysis of “dou” largely rests with the identification of its domain, which is by and large determined by the interaction between grammar and pragmatics. Key Words: "dou"; intensifier; domain; grammar-pragmatics interaction
