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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">university</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Bremen</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>,
we are currently conducting a large-scale crosslinguistic study of the grammar
of ordinal numerals. We also look at word-order issues and word-class
membership problems of numerals. First of all, cardinal numerals behave like
adjectives in loads of languages – especially Indo-European ones.
However, this is often true only of a certain sub-set of the cardinals (lower
cardinals as opposed to higher ones, digits as opposed to decimal values, etc.).
Thus, there is a difference between Latvian and Lithuanian on the one hand and
Greek on the other: Latvian and Lithuanian treat most of their numerals as
adjectives when it comes to agreement while Greek has agreement only for
numerals including the digits 1, 3 and 4. Details can be found in the work by
Hurford, Veselinova and my own. For the latter see:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:2.0cm;text-align:justify;text-indent:
-2.0cm'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Stolz, Thomas. </span></font><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>2001. </span></font><font size=2><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>d „Ordinalia
– Linguistisches Neuland. Ein Typologenblick auf die Beziehung zwischen
Kardinalia und Ordinalia und die Sonderstellung von EINS und ERSTER.“, in
<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Was ich noch sagen wollte… </span></i></span></font><i><font
size=2><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-style:italic'>A
multilingual Festschrift for Norbert Boretzky on occasion of his 65<sup>th</sup>
birthday</span></font></i><font size=2><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt'>,
herausgegeben von Birgit Igla & Thomas Stolz (= Studia Typologica 2). <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">Berlin</st1:State></st1:place>: Akademie-Verlag,
507-530. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:2.0cm;text-align:justify;text-indent:
-2.0cm'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Stolz, Thomas. 2002. </span></font><font
size=2><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt'>„Is ‚one‘
still ‚one‘ in ‚tewnty-one‘? On agreement and
government properties of cardinal numerals in the languages of Europe.“, <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung</span></i> <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>55</span></b>, 354-402. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent style='text-align:justify'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt'>STOLZ, Thomas
& VESELINOVA, Ljuba. 2005.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent style='text-align:justify'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt'> „Ordinal
numerals.“, in: <i><span style='font-style:italic'>The World Atlas of
Language Structures</span></i>, edited by Martin Haspelmath, Matthew S. Dryer,
David Gil & Bernard Comrie. <st1:City w:st="on">Oxford</st1:City>: <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Oxford</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
Press, 218-221.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Please note that there
are also interesting problems on the micro-level: even if ordinals precede the
noun, the cardinal ONE may follow the noun (this is the case in Maltese, for
instance). <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Good luck with the project
and keep me informed<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Thomas Stolz<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Prof. Dr. Thomas Stolz<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Universität Bremen<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>FB 10: Linguistik<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>PF 330 440<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>D-28 334 Bremen/Germany<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>Von:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Discussion List
for ALT [mailto:LINGTYP@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>Im Auftrag von </span></b>bingfu Lu<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Gesendet:</span></b> Samstag, 18. August 2007
17:16<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>An:</span></b>
LINGTYP@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Betreff:</span></b> word order of cardinals</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>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></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Ord-N & Card-N 53<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>N-Ord & N-Card 52<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>N-Ord & Card-N 15<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>N-Ord & N-Card 0<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>(some languages has two order, therefore, the total numbers of
languages above is larger than 112). We want to know the possible counterexample
and relevant literature and data in other languages.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>In addition, in some languages, cardinals morphologically belongs to
adjectives, such as Russian. We also need to know other languages where
cardinals morphologically as adjectives.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Replies to this inquiry can be send to my colleague Renping Jiang (</span></font><a
href="mailto:renpingjiang@126.com">renpingjiang@126.com</a>) and me.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>If correspondents is enough, we will make a summary.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Bingfu Lu<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Institute of Linguistics<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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