Open AccessChapter 7. Morphology: Numbers and Numerals
Author(s) -
Tore Nesset
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
septentrio educational
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2464-1464
DOI - 10.7557/8.3497
Subject(s) - numeral system , arithmetic , style (visual arts) , linguistics , font , span (engineering) , literature , mathematics , history , art , philosophy , visual arts , civil engineering , engineering
Numbers are very often rendered as letters in medieval texts. Only occasionally you encounter numbers written out, so that we can see how they were pronounced and inflected. It is nevertheless worthwhile to explore the Common Slavic and Old Rusian number systems, because they provide historical explanations of many idiosyncracies and exceptions you have struggled with in Modern Russian. Have you ever wondered why два, три and четыре combine with nouns in the genitive singular? And did you know where the numeral сорок ‘forty’ comes from? After you have read this chapter you will know the answers! Click on the links below to learn more! 7.1 Numerals - a separate part of speech