[Lingtyp] Summary numeral in the world languages

[Eline Visser]

Kalamang has something like this, described at the bottom of this page of my grammar: https://paperhive.org/documents/items/e7TDfjRZRHtB/text?a=p:200 and also here: https://paperhive.org/documents/items/e7TDfjRZRHtB?a=p:214.

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On Wednesday, September 6th, 2023 at 9:01 AM, lingtyp-request at listserv.linguistlist.org <lingtyp-request at listserv.linguistlist.org> wrote:


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> 1. Re: Summary numeral in the world languages (Randy LaPolla)
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> Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2023 15:01:08 +0800
> From: Randy LaPolla randy.lapolla at gmail.com
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> To: Pun Ho Lui luiph001 at gmail.com
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> Dear Joe,
> See
> David Bradley, 2001, Counting the family: Family group classifiers in Yi (Tibeto-Burman) languages, Anthropological Linguistics 43.1: 1-17.
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> Randy
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> > On Sep 6, 2023, at 2:50 PM, Pun Ho Lui luiph001 at gmail.com wrote:
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> > ?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.
> > 
> > (1) Zaozou
> > ?u55-mu55 na53 phi?33
> > 
> > 1-PL[EXCL] two father_and_child
> > 
> > ?we two (exclusive), my daughter and I.? (Li, 2020)
> > 
> > (2) Kham
> > syar sono:h pusum-ni
> > 
> > louse and flea-DL
> > 
> > ?the louse and the flea? (Watters, 2004)
> > 
> > (3) Mapudungu
> > (in?che?) eymi inchiu i-y-u
> > 
> > I you:SG we:DU eat-IND-1NONSG-DU
> > 
> > ?You and I ate.?
> > 
> > Languages with this construction I know are Zaozou, Kham, Mapudungu, Alto Perene?, 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
> > 
> > I am wondering if there are other languages sharing similar constructions.
> > 
> > Thank you.
> > 
> > Warmest,
> > Joe Pun Ho Lui
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