NumType: numeral type
NumType
Some languages (especially Slavic) have a complex system of numerals. For example, in the school grammar of Czech, the main part of speech is “numeral”, it includes almost everything where counting is involved and there are various subtypes. It also includes interrogative, relative, indefinite and demonstrative words referring to numbers (words like kolik / how many, tolik / so many, několik / some, a few), so at the same time we may have a non-empty value of PronType. (In English, these words are called quantifiers and they are considered a subgroup of determiners.)
In this respect Bulgarian behaves like Czech language.
From the syntactic point of view, some numtypes behave like adjectives
and some behave like adverbs. We tag them u-pos/ADJ and
u-pos/ADV respectively. Thus the NumType feature applies to
several different parts of speech:
- u-pos/NUM: cardinal numerals
- u-pos/DET: quantifiers
- u-pos/ADJ: definite adjectival, e.g. ordinal numerals
- u-pos/ADV: adverbial (e.g. ordinal and multiplicative) numerals, both definite and pronominal
Card: cardinal number or corresponding interrogative / relative / indefinite / demonstrative word
Note that in some Indo-European languages there is a fuzzy borderline between numerals and nouns for thousand, million and billion.
Examples
- [bg] едно, две, три / edno, dve, tri “one, two, three”; колко / kolko “how many”; няколко / nyakolko “some”; толкова / tolkova “so many”; много / mnogo “many”; малко / malko “few”
Ord: ordinal number or corresponding interrogative / relative / indefinite / demonstrative word
This is a subtype of adjective.
Examples
- [bg] adjectival: първи / parvi “first”; втори / vtori “second”, трети / treti “third”, etc.
Mult: multiplicative numeral or corresponding interrogative / relative / indefinite / demonstrative word
This is subtype of adverb.
Examples
- [bg] веднъж / vednazh “once”; дваж / dvazh “twice”
Frac: fraction
This is a subtype of cardinal numbers, occasionally distinguished in corpora. It may denote a fraction or just the denominator of the fraction. In Bulgarian the numerator is cardinal numeral and denominator is ordinal numeral.
Examples
- [bg] две трети / dve treti “two thirds”
NumType in other languages: [bej] [bg] [bm] [cs] [el] [en] [es] [fi] [fr] [ga] [hu] [hy] [it] [ka] [kk] [koi] [kpv] [ky] [mdf] [myv] [pcm] [qpm] [sl] [sme] [sv] [tr] [tt] [u] [uk] [urj] [uz] [xav] [xcl]