Numeral Types and Changes Worldwide
1st Edition
Published on 20. July 2011
VI, 281 pages
978-3-11-081119-3 (ISBN)
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Content
- Intro
- Introduction
- Numeral systems and patterns of change
- Artificially growing a numeral system
- When numeral systems are expanded
- Pre-decimal structures in counting and metrology
- Haruai numerals and their implications for the history and typology of numeral systems
- Types of numeral changes
- Classifiers in East and Southeast Asian languages: Counting and beyond
- Some remarks on numeral morphosyntax in Slavic
- Numeral reconstruction in several major language groups of Europe and Asia
- The Indo-European system of numerals from 'l' to '10'
- On the history of non-decimal systems and their elements in numerals of Aryan languages
- The numeral system of the Uralic languages
- The Austroasiatic numerals '1' to '10' from a historical and typological perspective
- Subject index
- Language index
