Number productivity at the semantic level

Abstract

The number is an independent part of speech, which has both the manifestations of meaning and the same lexical grammatical functions as any other semantic unit. There are various ways in which new words are produced, with the help of other language units. Numbers are one of the linguistic units that can be productive in the process of creating new words. Whether as a base, which can take other clamps, especially in the drafting process. As an independent word participates in both the process of interpretation and formation through syntax.
Interestingly, numbers do not all have the same degree of productivity, as is true of other units of language. Among the numbers in Kurdish, certain numbers can participate in the process of word formation. Some of them make many words and others make fewer words. Number and its semantic meaning can be interpreted according to any of the semantic theories; each theory includes the meaning of number according to its own interpretations. This shows us that the concept of number is not limited to counting, but often has other meanings and concepts. This research is an attempt to demonstrate the ability and productivity of numbers in the Kurdish language of the Central Krmanji dialect