Locutions with value of numeral in the Albanian Language

Abstract

Locutions are the less studied units in Albanian language and in foreign languages. The object of this survey will be numeral locutions, a special group of locutions, for which little is spoken. Their treatment will be done on the method of analysis of the linguistic facts, extracted from the material collected for this purpose. The analysis will be done in the structural plan, as in the semantic plan they form a single set. Numeral locutions have a structure composed only of meaningful words or of meaningful words and of not meaningful words.The constituent elements have lost meaning and the whole structure has a single meaning. The locutions with two-word consist of a numeral and one of the words thousand, million, milliard etc. or by a name derived from an adjective with numeral backgrounds. Locutions formed by more than two words consist of three meaningful words (two numerals and the point or comma word) or by meaningful words and by not meaningful words. The linking of their elements is coordinated, subordinated or mixed. Regardless of the number and the morphological form of the elements, the whole structure functions as a single unit and has a complete meaning, indicates a certain amount tableware etc. The number of numeral locutions is many times greater than the number of the numerals and their structure is very varied. These locutions are present in the communication, not replacing the numerals and not being replaced by them. Their use is indispensable. This study will serve to distinguish these locutions as separate language units.