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Numeral systems of the Greater Awyu family of Papuan languages are the topic of this paper. Extended body-part systems that employ the fingers, parts of the arm and head are used by most languages in this family. Body-part based numeral systems of this type are only found in parts of New Guinea and Australia and are therefore of great interest for the typology of numeral systems. They are closed systems, with 23, 25 or 27 as highest number in the languages of the Greater Awyu family. They are also interesting because of the role of conventional gestures to distinguish the primary body-part mea. |
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One size fits all? : on the grammar and semantics of singularity and plurality / Anne Storch & Gerrit J. Dimmendaal -- Number and noun categorisation : a view from north-west Amazonia / Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald -- Pluractionality and the distribution of number marking across categories / Gerrit J. Dimmendaal -- Figuratively speaking -- number in Kharia / John Peterson -- Number in Kambaata : a category between inflection and derivation / Yvonne Treis -- The history of numeral classifiers in Teiwa (Papuan) / Marian Klamer -- Number and numeration in Nêlêmwa and Zuanga (New Caledonia) : ontologies, definiteness and pragmatics / Isabelle Bril -- When number meets classification : the linguistic expression of number in Baïnounk languages / Alexander Cobbinah & Friederike Lüpke -- Number in Dinka / Torben Andersen -- Counting chickens in Luwo / Anne Storch -- Number in South-Bauchi West Languages (Chadic, Nigeria) / Bernard Caron -- Number and numerals in Zande / Helma Pasch -- Numerals in Papuan languages of the Greater Awyu family / Lourens de Vries. |
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Papuan languages -- Semantics.
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Papuan languages. |
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Semantics. |
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Electronic books.
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Storch, Anne.
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Dimmendaal, Gerrit Jan.
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Print version: Storch, Anne. Number ' Constructions and Semantics. John Benjamins Publishing Company 2014 1306472547 |
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9781461958352 (electronic book) |
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1461958350 (electronic book) |
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9781306472548 (electronic book) |
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1306472547 (electronic book) |
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