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Nu´mer`a`tive


a.1.Of or pertaining to numeration; as, a numerative system.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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9) and is realized by different functions in premodification: deictic (connected to the provision of references), numerative (linked to the identification of quantities), epithet (associated with factual or subjective characteristics) and classifier (related to a system of subclassification).
This bundling can be done by adding descriptive, numerative and classifying information before the noun (pre- modifiers) and specifying information after it (post-modifiers).
These functional elements--Deictic, Numerative, Epithet, Classifier, and Qualifier--serve to specify Things within "different systems of the system network of the nominal group" (Halliday, 2004: 312).
As a result of the numerative range of T-scores (Normal greater than -1, Osteopenic between -1 to -2.5 and Osteoporoticless than -2.5) being easier to be remembered and memorized than the BMD values.
Such a principle must be infinitely unitive and also infinitely numerative.