ON THE SEMANTIC POTENTIAL OF ORDINAL NUMERALS IN THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE
The article is devoted to the problem of the essence and features of semantic development of ordinal numerals of the first ten functioning in the national Russian language. The conclusion is made about the active involvement of this lexical-grammatical group in the process offunctional transposition (V. G. Gak). The development of the semantics of ordinal numerals is based on regular models that are correlated with a set of values. The top ten lexemes are divided into two groups that reflect the perception of ordinal numbers of objects. The most extensive system of secondary values has the numeral first, which is explained by the sacredness and semantic loading of the phenomenon of the beginning. In the development of qualitative values of ordinal numerals, a single all-Russian tradition can be traced.