NUMERAL AND ITS AXIOLOGICAL POTENTIAL

Abstract

Introduction. The reflection of environmental events occurs in language through the prism of the category of evaluation, which is traditionally interpreted as a result of linguistic expression of logicalphilosophical evaluative judgments. In contemporary linguistics, linguoaxiology is actively developing, with its component, the grammar of evaluation, being presented as an independent scientific direction that explores the morphology and syntax of evaluation. This research is primarily focused on the morphology of grammar. Among the parts of speech containing a powerful evaluative potential, the Ukrainian numeral stands out. Despite numerous studies on the issues of defining the status and peculiarities of the numeral functioning, discussions continue regarding the interpretation of this part of speech and its linguistic capabilities.
The purpose. The aim of the research is to demonstrate the potential of numerals in modelling evaluative meanings in Ukrainian and English languages. The object of the article is the morphology of evaluation in Ukrainian and English languages, while its subject is the evaluative potential of numerals as a part of speech in Ukrainian and English languages.
The methods. The system of special linguistic methods used in the article is based on the integration of applied scientific approaches, specifically the systemic (structural) and functional (discursive) approaches. The axiological method allows us to clarify the features of grammaticalization of the category of evaluation using
numeral forms. Additionally, the descriptive method is used to present the material, make generalizations and conclusions, while the comparative method is employed to conduct a comparative analysis of numeral forms in Ukrainian and English. Lastly, the survey method is used to explore the peculiarities of associative content of numeral forms with axiological meanings.
Main results of the study. Despite the peripheral nature of numerals, research aspects related to their study have not been exhausted to date. In the 21st century, numerals have begun to be studied within the focus of pragmatic, linguo-cognitive, and linguo-conceptual paradigms of knowledge. This includes perspectives from new directions in linguistics such as poetic grammar, precedent theory, discourse linguistics, assessment morphology, grammatical stylistics, as well as comparative-historical and comparative-contrastive linguistics.
It is noted that Ukrainian numerals have significant potential in modelling evaluative meanings, expressions,
and artistic language tools, as they can verbalize a range of evaluative meanings, including emotional evaluations, which are important for the development of assessment morphology. A system of evaluative meanings that numerals in the Ukrainian language can verbalize has been identified.
Originality. This marks the first analysis in Ukrainian linguistics of the evaluative potential of the numeral and the classification of evaluative meanings corresponding to evaluation it expresses.
Conclusions and specific suggestions of the author. Analysis of the unique manifestation of numeral meanings in language allows us to conclude that the linguistic personality as a subject of cognition, manifested in evaluative categorization, creates numeral meanings based on its knowledge, intellect, and social settings. At the same time, the interpretation of numeral meanings occurs based on the actualization not of denotativesignificant meaning but on the system of developed connotations in linguistic cultures. This allows linguistic personalities to focus attention on specific potential meanings of certain numerals. Studying grammar within the focus of axiology allows us to observe the dynamics of the grammatical system, shapes a new perspective on traditional issues, and consequently contributes to the development of grammatical science itself.