[Lingtyp] Summary numeral in the world languages

[Randy LaPolla]

Dear Joe,
See 
David Bradley, 2001, Counting the family: Family group classifiers in Yi (Tibeto-Burman) languages, Anthropological Linguistics 43.1: 1-17.

Randy

> On Sep 6, 2023, at 2:50 PM, Pun Ho Lui <luiph001 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> 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.
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> (1) Zaozou
> ŋu55-mu55 na53 phiɛ33
> 
> 1-PL[EXCL] two father_and_child 
> 
> “we two (exclusive), my daughter and I.”  (Li, 2020)
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> (2) Kham 
> syar sono:h pusum-ni 
> 
> louse and flea-DL
> 
> ‘the louse and the flea’ (Watters, 2004)
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> (3)  Mapudungu
> (iñché) eymi    inchiu   i-y-u
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>  I          you:SG we:DU eat-IND-1NONSG-DU
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>   ‘You and I ate.’ 
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> 
> Languages with this construction I know are Zaozou, Kham, Mapudungu, Alto Perené, Bangla, Cantonese, Mandarin, Papuan Malay, Yakut, 
> Inari Saami, Mongolian, Classical Tibetan, Huallaga Quechua, Wardaman, Khanty, Vedic Sanskrit, Mparntwe Arrernte, Daga, Mapudungu, Enets, Kham and Hualapai
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> 
> I am wondering if there are other languages sharing similar constructions.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Warmest,
> Joe Pun Ho Lui
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