THE LEXEMIC CLASS OF THE NUMERAL ACCORDING TO THE MORPHOLOGICAL TAXONOMIC PRINCIPLE

Abstract

Bulgarian linguistics states that the class of the numerical combines two types of numerical lexemes ‒ numerical and ordinal, which have different form changes. Such coexistence contradicts the morphological taxonomic principle, according to which a part of speech should combine words with a homogeneous paradigm and identical grammatical features. The morphological epicrisis made in this scientific work shows that it is more correct to divide the lexemes with quantitative semantics into three lexemic classes ‒ numerals, nouns, and adjectives.