期刊名称：LAHOR: journal for Croatian as mother, second and foreign lanugage
印刷版ISSN：1846-2197
电子版ISSN：1848-4972
出版年度：2013
卷号：1
期号：15
页码：91-104
语种：Croatian
出版社：Crotian Philological Society
摘要：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).
关键词：numeral words; mastering a foreign language; morphology; syntax; grammatical description
