Competition between French ordinal and cardinal numbers from diachronic perspective

Numerals represent in French language a very interesting topic for research because it's a very complex grammatical system. The aim of this thesis is to extend and further develop the topic of my bachelor's thesis entitled French ordinals in diachronic perspective. The aforementioned thesis aimed to explain the development and functioning of ordinal numbers in contemporary French grammatical system from their Latin origins to the present. The aim of this thesis is to further elaborate on the topic of numerals and this time focus on a deeper explanation of the historical development and the competition between cardinal and ordinal numbers in French. First, we will focus on the general characteristics of this grammatical group, then we will explain in more detail the historical development of cardinal and ordinal numbers and their competition. We will study the competition between cardinal and ordinal numbers by searching for occurences of individual examples of numbers and lemma using the Frantext. In this research, we will attempt to further verify the historical development and tendencies of competition between cardinal and ordinal numbers.