POSITIONAL ALTERNATION IN THE SYSTEM OF GRAMMATICAL FORMS (ON THE BASIS OF NUMBER CATEGORY)
In the article the review of the existing points of view concerning the positional alternation in the system of grammatical forms (on the basis of number category) is given. The efforts of many researchers of grammatical semantics were aimed at finding out the invariant (general) meaning inherent, firstly, to the number category as a whole and, secondly - the invariant meaning of each of the forms making up numerical opposition.