Numeral Adjective

A Numeral Adjective is an Adjective that modifies the quantity of things that Noun denotes.

AKA: Adjective of Number.
Context:
- It can range from being a Definite Numeral Adjective (such as “five”) to being an Indefinite Numeral Adjective (such as “all”, “several” and “many”. (?? “[no] horse”)
Example(s):
- a Counter Word.
- an English Numeral, such as: “She has [two] cats.” and “I have [several] books., “[Many] people were in line.”
- a Japanese Numeral.
- …
Counter-Example(s):
- a Part-of-Speech.
See: Superlative, Compound Word, Linguistics, Number.

References

(Wikipedia, 2017) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeral_(linguistics) Retrieved:2017-5-9.
- In linguistics, a numeral is a member of a word class (or sometimes even a part of speech) designating numbers, such as the English word 'two' and the compound 'seventy-seven'. ^[1] ^[2] Numerals function most typically as an adjective or a pronoun and express numbers and relations to numbers for example: quantity, sequence, frequency, or fraction.

↑ Charles Follen: A Practical Grammar of the German Language. Boston, 1828, p. 9, p. 44 and 48. Quote: "PARTS OF SPEECH. There are ten parts of speech, viz. Article, Substantive or Noun, Adjective, Numeral, Pronoun, Verb, Adverb, Preposition, Conjunction, and Interjection.", "NUMERALS. The numbers are divided into cardinal, ordinal, proportional, distributive, and collective. [...] Numerals of proportion and distribution are [...] &c. Observation. The above numerals, in fach or fäl´tig, are regularly declined, like other adjectives."
↑ Horace Dalmolin: The New English Grammar: With Phonetics, Morphology and Syntax, Tate Publishing & Enterprises, 2009, p. 175 & p. 177. Quote: "76. The different types of words used to compose a sentence, in order to relate an idea or to convey a thought, are known as parts of speech. [...] The parts of seech, with a brief definition, will follow. [...] 87. Numeral: Numerals are words that express the idea of number. There are two types of numerals: cardinal and ordinal. The cardinal numbers (one, two, three...) are used for counting people, objects, etc. Ordinal numbers (first, second, third...) can indicate order, placement in rank, etc."

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Numeral
- A word or symbol representing a number.
  - The word “fifteen”, the Arabic numeral “15”, and the Roman numeral “XV” are all numerals representing the number fifteen.