Translation glossary: EN-SL Dictionary Of Grammar

Da Inglese a Sloveno

A distributive numeral (which is mainly used in Latin grammar) is a numeral which expresses a group of the number specified. Examples in English: (a) by the dozen, (b) in pairs, (c) a dollar each, example Slovene: (a) na ducate, (b) v parih, (c) po dolar vsak. Note: In German "each" is usually translated by using the word "je". To identify this numeral we have to ask "How many" //SECOND NOTE: The meaning of sentences containing distributive numerals can be described in terms of a binary semantic relationship of distributivity that obtains between an expression containing the distributive numeral, the distributive share, and some other expression in the sentence, the distributive key. [Gill 2005: 222] Distributive numerals are special adnominal numerals that express distributive relations, as in German ‘Die Männer trugen je drei Koffer’, ‘The men carried three suitcases each.’ "Vsak moški je nosil tri kovčke". English lacks distributive numerals, because in a sentence like ‘They carried three suitcases each, the numeral does not form a continuous constituent with the distributive word ‘each’, i.e. ‘three…each’ does not qualify as a numeral. [Michaelis, Maurer, Haspelmath and Huber 2008].

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