NumType: numeral type
| Values: | Card | Dist | Frac | Ord | Range |
In Middle Armenian the part of speech numerals includes only words where a precise counting or quantity is involved.
From the syntactic point of view, some numtypes behave like adjectives and some behave like adverbs. We tag them ADJ and ADV respectively. Thus the NumType feature applies to several different parts of speech:
Note that there are no adverbial ordinal and multiplicative numerals in Middle Armenian.
Card: cardinal number
Note that in some Indo-European languages there is a fuzzy borderline between numerals and nouns for thousand, million and billion.
Examples
- 1, 2, 3
- մեկ/mek, երկու/erkow, իրեք (երեք)/irek’ (erek’) “one, two, three”
Ord: ordinal number
This is a subtype of adjective.
Examples
- առջի/aṙǰi, երկուսում/erkowsowm, իրեքում/irek’owm “first, second, third”
Frac: fraction
This is a subtype of cardinal numbers. It may denote a fraction or just the denominator of the fraction.
Examples
- կէս/kēs, չարէկ/čarēk “one-half, quarter”
- երեքակ/erek’ak, հնկակ/hnkak, տասնակ/tasnak “one third, one fifth, one tenth”
Dist: distributive numeral
Used to express that the same quantity is distributed to each member in a set of targets.
Examples
*մէկ-մէկ/mēk-mēk, երկու-երկու/erkow-erkow, իրեք-իրեք/irek’-irek’ “one at a time, two at a time, three at a time”
Range: range of values
This could be considered a subtype of cardinal numbers (provided tokenization leaves it as one token).
Examples
- 4-5 (չորս-հինգ) “four-five” (“either four or five”)
- 10-15 (տասն-տասնուհինկ) “ten fifteen” (“from ten to fifteen”)
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