Slovotvorný přehled slov s číselným významem II: číslovky neurčité
A word-formation oriented overview of words with numeral meaning II: indefi-nite numerals

Summary/Abstract: This article is a counterpart to the overwiew I: definite numerals in the previous num-ber. Three kinds of indefiniteness are introduced: (1) the problematic subclass of tra-ditional indefinite numerals in the strict sense (lexical means for giving quantities on the scale „few–much“), the most representants of it being rather adverbs of measure; (2) the subclass of algebraic numerals and (3) the subclass of deictic numerals containing de-monstrative, interrogative/relative and indefinite numerals in the sense of indexical in-definiteness. One group of indefinite deictics, nevímkolik and suchlike, is presented as one pole of continuum with expressions in the sentence form on the other pole. Combi-nations of indefinite numerals with other numerals, with other parts of speech etc., used when expressing an indefinite quantity, are mentioned as well.

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