Functioning of english quantitative words

Abstract

The article considers the problems of functioning of quantitative units, their language and speech aspects. The paper focuses upon such important items as definition of special groups, which have the meaning of weight and measure. It is connected with etymological background of these words and their modifications in modern English language. The analysis of the latest research shows that investigated systematic and functional properties of modern English quantitative units, their inherent functional potential, regularities in language and speech systems, creates the bank of quantitative lexical units models. Numerals come to the forefront for they are used with discrete nouns and as mediators with indiscrete ones.The obtained results are aimed at further understanding of English words of weight and measure, which are nominated here as quantitative ones as those charged with general seme Quantity and corresponding subsemes Number and Measure. Both groups make the centre of lexico-semantic field of quantity.

Розглянуто проблеми функціонування квантитативних одиниць, їх мовні та мовленнєві аспекти. Дослідження фокусується на таких важливих явищах, як визначення особливих груп, що мають кількісне значення маси та масштабу. Воно пов’язане з етимологічною основою цих слів та їх модифікаціями в сучасній англійській мові.