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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;font-family:"Doulos SIL""><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Dear all,<span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Kugama, an Adamawa
language of Nigeria (ISO 639-3: kow; Glottocode: kuga1239), has noun phrases
that also summarize the number of elements involved in nominal coordination, see
examples below. Structurally, these phrases are possessive constructions with a
numeral as a head and a possessive pronominal as a modifier. More information
about these constructions can be found in my PhD dissertation (Litvinova 2023)
that will be available online after the defense in December 2023.<span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">(1)<span> </span>Ɔ̀zūrúwā<sup> <span> </span></sup>ɗéè <span> </span>Lúkpɛ̂wà
<span> </span>à <span> </span>Bɛ̀nā<span> </span><span> </span>tì
<span> </span>sɛ́ɛ́=kī</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> Ozuruwa<span> </span>CONJ<span> </span>Luikpewa<span> </span>COM<span> </span>Bena<span> </span><span>P</span>ROG<span> </span>fight=NMLZ<span> </span><span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> ní<sup>L</sup>sá̰ā̰=<sup>L</sup>=rī=<sup>L</sup>=rē<span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> three=GEN=POSS=GEN=3PL.HUM.POSS.ALIEN<span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> ‘Ozuruwa, Luikpewa and Bena are fighting. All three of them.’<span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">(2)<span> </span>ā <span> </span>kā=tí <span> </span>dìŋ=<sup>L <span> </span></sup>kísā <span> </span>ɗéè
<span> </span>dìŋ<span></span>=<sup>L <span> </span></sup>zɛ᷇m<span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> 1SG<span> </span>see=PFV <span> </span>tree=GEN baobab CONJ <span> </span>tree=GEN tamarind<span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> à <span> </span>dìŋ=<sup>L
<span> </span></sup>nɔ̄rī <span> </span>à <span> </span>dìŋ=<sup>L <span> </span></sup>gbɛ̀lɛ́<sup>L <span> </span></sup>tì
<span> </span>gɛ̀pí=ɛ̄<span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> COM <span> </span>tree=GEN shea <span> </span>COM
<span> </span>tree=GEN gbele_tree <span> </span>PROG <span></span>grow=NMLZ</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> ɓáā=<sup>L <span> </span></sup>háákī<span> </span></span><span lang="IS" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">ní<sup>L</sup>hɛ̰̄=</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><sup><span>L<span></span></span></sup><span lang="IS">=rɛ̂</span><sup><span><span></span></span></sup></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> in=GEN <span> </span>farm <span> </span>four=GEN=</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">3PL.NHUM.POSS.ALIEN<span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> ‘I saw a baobab tree, a tamarind tree, a shea tree and a <i>gbele</i> tree (the species of this tree is
unknown) growing in the farm. All four of them.’</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Reference: Litvinova, Lora. 2023. A
grammatical analysis and documentation of Kugama (Wam), an Adamawa language of
Nigeria. Paris: INALCO PhD thesis<span></span></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Best wishes,</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Lora</span></font><span></span></p>
</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Sep 6, 2023 at 8:50 AM Pun Ho Lui <<a href="mailto:luiph001@gmail.com">luiph001@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Dear All,<div><br></div><div>Haspelmath (2007) and Croft (2022) discussed a coordinating construction in which a numeral “summarizes” the number of referents in a list. There are different strategies in which the numeral behaves this way, e.g., a free numeral (1); a dual affix on a coordinand (2); a dual pronoun in apposition with the list+verb with dual marker (3). These numeral may be mono-syndetic or bi-syndatic.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPS;font-size:11pt;font-weight:700">(1)</span><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPS;font-size:11pt"> Zaozou</span></div><div><div title="Page 155"><div><div><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS";font-weight:700">ŋu55</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS";font-weight:700">-mu55 na53 </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS";font-weight:700">phiɛ</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS";font-weight:700">33
</span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT"">1-PL[EXCL] two father_and_child </span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT"">“we two (exclusive), my daughter and I.” (Li, 2020)</span></p><div><br></div><div>(2) Kham </div><div>
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<div><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times"">syar sono:h pusum-ni </span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times"">louse and flea-</span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Times"">DL
</span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times"">‘the louse and the flea’ (Watters, 2004)</span></p><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>
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<div><p><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">(3) </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"ArialMT""> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial";font-style:italic">Mapudungu<br></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"ArialMT"">(iñché) eymi inchiu i-y-u
</span></p><p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"ArialMT""> I you:</span><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:"ArialMT"">SG </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"ArialMT"">we:</span><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:"ArialMT"">DU </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"ArialMT"">eat-</span><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:"ArialMT"">IND</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"ArialMT"">-1</span><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:"ArialMT"">NONSG</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"ArialMT"">-</span><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:"ArialMT"">DU</span></p><p><span style="font-family:ArialMT"><font size="1"> </font></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"ArialMT"">‘You and I ate.’ </span></p><div><font face="Arial"><br></font></div><div><font face="Arial">Languages with this construction I know are Zaozou, Kham, <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic">Mapudungu, </span><span lang="EN-US">Alto Perené<b>, </b></span><span lang="EN-US">Bangla<b>, </b>Cantonese<b>, </b>Mandarin<b>, </b></span><span lang="EN-US">Papuan
Malay<b>, </b></span><span lang="EN-US">Yakut<b>, </b></span>
</font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US">Inari
Saami, <u></u><u></u></span><span lang="EN-US">Mongolian, </span><span lang="EN-US">Classical
Tibetan, </span><span lang="EN-US">Huallaga
Quechua, </span><span lang="EN-US">Wardaman, </span><span lang="EN-US">Khanty, </span><span lang="EN-US">Vedic
Sanskrit, </span><span lang="EN-US">Mparntwe Arrernte, </span><span lang="EN-US">Daga, </span><span lang="EN-US">Mapudungu, </span><span lang="EN-US">Enets, </span><span lang="EN-US">Kham and </span><span lang="EN-US">Hualapai</span></font></p><div><br></div><div>I am wondering if there are other languages sharing similar constructions.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you.</div><div><br></div><div>Warmest,</div><div>Joe Pun Ho Lui</div>
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