<div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Dear colleagues,<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">I colleague of mine is investigating the word order of ordinal numerals. Based on her database of 112 languages in China, she got the following implicational universal: If ordinal numeral precedes the head noun, cardinal numerals does as well. Her data as shown below:<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Ord-N & Card-N 53<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-size:
10.5pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">N-Ord & N-Card 52<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">N-Ord & Card-N 15<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">N-Ord & N-Card 0<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">(some languages has two order, therefore, the total numbers of languages above is larger than 112).<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We want to know the possible counterexample and relevant literature and data in other languages.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">In addition, in some languages, cardinals morphologically belongs to adjectives, such as Russian.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We also need to know other languages where cardinals morphologically as adjectives.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Replies to this inquiry can be send to my colleague Renping Jiang (</FONT><A href="mailto:renpingjiang@126.com"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>renpingjiang@126.com</FONT></A><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">) and me.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">If correspondents is enough, we will make a summary.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Bingfu Lu<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Institute of Linguistics<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></div>