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Why is five much more than four? On the description of numeral words in Croatian as a second and foreign language
Milvia Gulešić Machata
; Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
Ana Grgić
; Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
Sažetak
Already at the very beginning of learning a foreign language, there is a need
to use numeral words, regardless of which language it is. In three thousand
most frequent words of the Croatian language (Moguš et al. 1999), there
are some thirty numeral words very different in their grammatical proper-
ties. In Croatian, as in other Slavic languages, the issue of numeral words
is a complex one and several morphological and syntactic rules should be
mastered in order to be able to utter a simple sentence with such words.
In addition, the knowledge of numeral words that the non-native speakers
of Croatian have in their first language often does not correspond to what
they need to know about numeral words in Croatian. Therefore, deviations
in their interlanguage with regard to numbers are very frequent. In order
to achieve better mastery over numeral words in Croatian as a foreign lan-
guage, one first needs to describe them properly, hence this presentation
attempts to answer certain questions about numeral words for the needs of
Croatian as a foreign language, e.g. which words in the Croatian language
can be included under numeral words, i.e. what the sub-types of numeral
words are, which principles the authors of handbooks should be guided by
in their description etc. We will describe the classification and description
of numeral words in contemporary handbooks of Croatian as the first lan-
guage. The paper is based on insights into numeral words in general and
in the Croatian language (Tafra 1989, 1999, 2000, 2004, 2011; Pišković
2011; Marković 2011; all contemporary grammar books of the Croatian lan-
guage), on insights into interlanguage (Selinker 1992), on the need to teach
grammatical rules directly (Novak Milić 2005), and on insights into the lex-
ical approach in teaching foreign languages, with a particular emphasis on
Croatian (Bergovec 2007).
Ključne riječi
numeral words; mastering a foreign language; morphology; syntax; grammatical description
Hrčak ID:
125646
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Datum izdavanja:
31.10.2013.
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