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QUANTIFYING STRUCTURES AND THE MORPHOLOGICAL CLASS OF THE NUMERAL
QUANTIFYING STRUCTURES AND THE MORPHOLOGICAL CLASS OF THE NUMERAL

Author(s): Laura Ionică
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Editura Universităţii din Piteşti
Keywords: heterogeneous. morpho-syntactic features. part of speech. numeral.

Summary/Abstract: 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.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 11
  • Page Range: 27-31
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: English
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