L. Yu. Mukovskaya, O. L. Mukovsky
Price: 50 руб.
The paper explores “numeral+noun” constructions with cardinal numerals as quanti fi ers found in many Baltic-Finnish languages. Data from the Estonian language demonstrates that noun groups with cardinal numerals’ plural contain indication of paired objects, two-part objects, complete sets, collectives and major events that may function as countable nouns. Along with the traditional “Indo-Europian” lexical instruments for rendering such
quantitative relations (e.g.“one pair of trousers”), the cardinal numerals’ capability to form the plural form and act as a quantifi er offers grammatical means for such phrases to become countable units for actual and potential pluralia tantum objects in the Estonian language. Such phrases retain the “number of sets” meaning; this fact shows regular use of countable nouns within the Num-PL Noun-PL groups in texts. In this context singular forms of noun may be interpreted as “part of set/collective”.
Keywords: numerals, plurals, quanti fi ers, quantity, number, pluralia tantum, Estonian.
REFERENCES
1. Agranat T. B. Kategoriya chisla u chislitel’nykh v pribaltiysko- fi nskikh yazykakh // Logicheskiy analiz yazyka: chislovoy kod v raznykh yazykakh i kul’turakh.
M.: LENAND, 2014. S. 89−95.
2. Lyashevskaya O. N. Semantika russkogo chisla. M.: Yazyki slavyanskoy kul’tury,
2004. 400 s. (Stidia philologica).
3. Shmatova M. S. Konstruktsii «chislitel’noe — sushchestvitel’noe» v khantyiskom
yazyke: sluchai markirovaniya sushchestvitel’nogo pokazatelem chisla (na materiale
teginskogo govora khantyiskogo yazyka) // ACTA LINGUISTICA PETROPOLITANA.
Trudy Instituta lingvisticheskikh issledovaniy. T. VI, ch. 3. SPb.: Nauka, 2010.
S. 182−185.
4. A mai magyar nyelv rendszere. Leíró nyelvtan. I. Bevezetés. Hangtan. Szótan.
szerk. József T. Budapest:Akadémiai kiadó, 1961. 604 old.
5. A mai magyar nyelv rendszere. Leíró nyelvtan. II. Mondattan. szerk. József T.
Budapest:Akadémiai kiadó, 1962. 584 old.
6. Corbett G.G. Number. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xx +
358 pp.
7. Palo T. Soome ja eesti keele mitmussõnad ehk pluratiivid // Lähivertailuja 12.
Soome — eesti kontrastiivseminar 30.5–1.6.2001 Kääriku. toim. Kaasik R. Tartu: Tartu
Ülikooli Kirjastus, 2002. P. 82–95.
