QUANTIFYING STRUCTURES AND THE MORPHOLOGICAL CLASS OF THE NUMERAL

Autor: Laura Ionică
Jazyk: German<br />English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />French<br />Italian<br />Portuguese<br />Russian
Rok vydání: 2012
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Zdroj: Studii si Cercetari Filologice: Seria Limbi Straine Aplicate, Iss 11, Pp 27-31 (2012)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1583-2236
Popis: The numeral has always been a long debated subject in the Romanian grammar, due to its heterogeneous nature. The debate is closely connected to the grammarians’ generally stated idea that this lexical-grammatical class is denied the status of part of speech, being included in other grammatical classes. The present study is a bold attempt to demonstrate that the semantic and morpho-syntactic features categorize the numeral as an independent lexical-grammatical class, even though a series of elements interacts with other parts of speech. The values of the various types of numerals explain the morpho-syntactic heterogeneity of this class. Nevertheless, these values attributed to numerals must not be intermingled with the parts of speech themselves.
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