The first stage of numeral classification in the Chinese language
The study of Chinese numerals prompts the need to classify them. The following major challenges are commonly faced during this step: confusion of classifying bases; considering Chinese numerals through the prism of numeral classifications for other types of languages; having no clear definition of a...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Kazan Federal University
2019-12-01
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| Series: | Ученые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки |
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| Online Access: | https://kpfu.ru/uz-eng-hum-2019-5-6-7.html |
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| Summary: | The study of Chinese numerals prompts the need to classify them. The following major challenges are commonly faced during this step: confusion of classifying bases; considering Chinese numerals through the prism of numeral classifications for other types of languages; having no clear definition of a numeral.
In view of the above, this paper provides the author's vision of numerals as a class of words performing the quantitative function and denoting abstract numbers, a number of objects, or mental categories related to number, order of count, multiplicity, and summation. The paper focuses on the first stage of classifying the Chinese numeral, thereby laying a foundation for further research. Researchers fail to agree which numerals – quantitative, ordinal, multiple, approximate, or interrogative – should be considered as the basic ones and which ones should be marked as belonging to the secondary level of classification.
As a result of the critical analysis of all the possible variations, starting with two-positional classifications and ending with multi-positional ones, the conclusion was made that at the first stage of analysis of Chinese numerals it is reasonable to divide them into quantitative and ordinal. |
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| ISSN: | 2541-7738 2500-2171 |