THE ENGLISH NUMERAL WORD-FORMING MODELS AND THE NUMERAL MORPHOLOGICAL STATUS IN MODERN ENGLISH GRAMMAR

Putyatina Ekaterina Ivanovna

Information About Author:

The article under consideration is the result of the research in the field of English numeral word-forming processes taking place in modern English grammar concerning their morphological status, whether the numerals should be referred to the nominative or functional parts of speech. The ground for this research is the fact that they are treated in quite contradictory ways by the native English-speaking linguists headed by Sir Randolph Quirk and Russian Anglicists.

Keywords: word-building or word-forming processes, word-forming model, the English numeral morphological status, nominal and functional parts of speech, open-class and close-class words, determiner

( 437.17 kB ) ( 422.5 kB )

Issue: 1, 2012

Pages: 161 — 165

Downloads: 1236