Thread:User talk:CodeCat/Gothic cardinal numerals/reply (4)

If "numeral" is considered a grammatical part of speech, then "cardinal numeral" is a subset of it, similar to "transitive verb" with respect to "verb". From this perspective, I can understand not wanting to have "cardinal numeral" as the header (just like "transitive verb"); but not why organize the categories differently (after all, Category:English transitive verbs exists and is a part-of-speech, non-topic subcategory of Category:English verbs).

Also, if both "2" and "two" are considered (grammatical) numerals, this tends to make "numeral" a bad label for a grammatical category, since it would then include "2", which is not a word.

The point about ordinals often not forming a coherent grammatical category is well taken, but isn't that similar to, say, participles, which often live astraddle between verbs and adjectives? If one were to use the same reasoning, then "participle" should became a topic category.