A Study of Numeral Classifiers in Dəravi Variety of Tâti

Numeral classifier is a function morpheme used in a numeral noun phrase. This article surveys numeral classifiers in Dәravi variety of Tâti. There are two main groups of classifiers in this variety. Sortal numeral classifiers occur arbitrarily in countable noun phrases next to the number to classify the count nouns into semantic classes according to their humanness, animacy, shape, physical characteristics, etc. Mensural numeral classifiers occur obligatorily in uncountable noun phrases as a count unit to make measuring of these nouns possible. ʻgəlaʼ is used as the sortal numeral classifier in Dəravi count noun phrases and has replaced the other numeral classifiers in count noun phrases.