Quantification is an extensive sphere that is represented as grammatical category, especially as number. Number system in Russian, which has contradiction of Sg vs. Pl, seems to be very simple and poor at a glance compared to languages that have dual, ...
Quantification is an extensive sphere that is represented as grammatical category, especially as number. Number system in Russian, which has contradiction of Sg vs. Pl, seems to be very simple and poor at a glance compared to languages that have dual, trial, paucal system. However, this impression is reversed through quantificational lexems, which is easily confirmed in quantificational constructions in Russian. Russian language has category of lexical plural, which describes qualitative parameter on quantification. Quantified words in this category are called Qantificater (hereunder called QF). All QF are formed through metaphorical conceptualization and meaning shift according to each type. Each QF is grammaticalized in different level respectively. A study is being revealed noun group, which becomes semantic source in QF in Russian, and <qualitative> information, which semantically and pragmatically delivers in these constructions. 11 kinds of semantic variables, which allow qualitative information to be delivered, are being suggested such as speaker/observer's position, positive/negative evaluation, homogeneity and heterogeneity, hypothetical multiplicity, redundancy, neatness and non-neatness, erectness, physical weight, temporality in occurrence, quantitative growth in structuring element of the functional process, and wholeness and repeatability in a situation. Contradictive meaning in each QF is formed according just to how these variables are formed. In other words, individual QF comes to be accompanied the 'classified' qualitative meaning while optionally including the certain semantic parameters except the quantified meaning.