NumType: numeral type
| Values: | Card | Dist | Frac | Ord | Range |
Armenian has a complex system of numerals. In the school grammar of Armenian, the part of speech “numeral” 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 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 “one”, երկու “two”, երեք “three”
Ord: ordinal number
This is a subtype of adjective.
Examples
- 1-ին, 2-րդ, 3-րդ
- առաջին “first”, երկրորդ “second”, երրորդ “third”
Frac: fraction
This is a subtype of cardinal numbers. It may denote a fraction or just the denominator of the fraction.
Examples
- 3/4 (երեք քառորդ) “three-quarters”
- կես “half”, քառորդ “quarter”, 1/3 (մեկ երրորդ) մասը “one third part”
Dist: distributive numeral
Used to express that the same quantity is distributed to each member in a set of targets.
Note that 20-ական, 30-ական թվականներին.Plur “by twenty, thirthies” are not considered distributive numerals, we mark them either ADJ or NOUN.
Examples
- երեքական (երեք-երեք) խնձոր յուրաքանչյուրին “three apples per / for each one”
- 3-ական խնձոր յուրաքանչյուրին “three apples per / for each one”
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 (տասից տասնհինգ) “ten fifteen” (“from ten to fifteen”)
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]