SEMANTICS OF NUMERALS AND SYMBOLISM OF THE NUMBER (based on the Nganasan language)

SEMANTICS OF NUMERALS AND SYMBOLISM OF THE NUMBER (based on the Nganasan language)

Author:  Nadezhda S. Kovalenko, Yulia V. Kolbysheva

Affiliation:  National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University

Abstract: 
The article deals with the numerals. The particular attention is devoted to the semantics of nu-merals. The numeral does not mean only quantity, it has a certain semantic load. Each number has cer-tain semantics. The research is conducted on the material of the Nganasan language.

Keywords:  linguistic world view, numeral, semantic load, the Nganasan language, symbolism.

Pages:  108-111