Telegina Elena Vasil'evna
Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B. N. Yeltsin
Abstract. The article is devoted to the one of the most important categories of language and thinking – the quantity category. Its way of making and development is considered. On the base of the works of the eminent domestic and foreign linguists the short excursus of this category study in the modern linguistics is given. The comparison of the quantity category in various Indo-European languages gives the important linguistic and culturological information, which presents a certain practical and theoretical importance and emphasizes the relevance of the researches in the given direction.
Key words and phrases: имена числительные, категория количества, число, этимологизация, языковые средства выражения количества, numerals, quantity category, number, etymologization, language means of quantity expression
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