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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Dear typologists,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">(Apologies to those who have already seen this query through LinguistList!)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;background:white">I'm looking for corresponding expressions (in any language) to the approximative numeral phrases in the examples below – conventionalized numeral expressions which
typically express larger, approximate numeric quantities and encode some kind of emotive function.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><br>
<span style="background:white">I'm interested in the composition and value of these numerals, as well as their emphatic and emotive functions – if there are other expressions in the numeral domain in your language(s) that carry a similar illocutionary force,
I would love to hear about them as well!</span><br>
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</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;background:white">Swedish [swe]: (from Bloggmix 2013, accessed through </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="http://spraakbanken.gu.se/korp"><span style="color:#2176F5;background:white;text-decoration:none">http://spraakbanken.gu.se/korp</span></a><span style="color:black;background:white">)</span><span style="color:black"><br>
<span style="background:white">Det finns nämligen femtioelva sorters myror.</span><br>
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;background:white">'There are actually many types of ants' (lit. 'There are actually fifty-eleven types of ants')</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><br>
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<span style="background:white">French [fra]: (Lavric 2010, </span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004253247_008"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#2176F5;background:white;text-decoration:none">https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004253247_008</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;background:white">)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><br>
<span style="background:white">Il n’y a pas trente-six façons de voir la chose.</span><br>
<span style="background:white">'There aren't very many ways of seeing the thing' (lit. 'There aren't thirty-six ways of seeing the thing')</span><br>
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<span style="background:white">Danish [dan]: (from OpenSubtitles2018, accessed through </span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="http://opus.nlpl.eu/"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#2176F5;background:white;text-decoration:none">http://opus.nlpl.eu</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;background:white">)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><br>
<span style="background:white">Han fortalte mig 117 gange, at han ikke gjorde hende noget.</span><br>
<span style="background:white">'He told me a thousand times that he didn't do anything to her' (lit. 'He told me 117 times that he didn't do anything to her')</span><br>
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<span style="background:white">English [eng]: (from OpenSubtitles2018, accessed through </span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="http://opus.nlpl.eu/"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#2176F5;background:white;text-decoration:none">http://opus.nlpl.eu</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;background:white">)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><br>
<span style="background:white">For the umpteenth time, we are not getting a dog.</span><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">Thank you very much in advance for any tips, examples or comments!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">Best regards,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">Amanda Kann<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#002448">____________________________________</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#002448">Amanda Kann</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#1C314A">Institutionen för </span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">lingvistik</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#1C314A"> | <i>Department
of </i></span><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Linguistics</span></i><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#1C314A"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#1C314A">Stockholms universitet | <i>Stockholm University</i></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#1C314A"><br>
106 91 Stockholm </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#954F72"><a href="mailto:amanda.kann@su.se">amanda.kann@su.se</a></span></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#002448"><br>
</span><span style="color:black"><a href="http://www.ling.su.se/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#954F72">www.ling.su.se</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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vid Stockholms universitet</span></a></span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#002448"><br>
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