[Lingtyp] Summary numeral in the world languages

[Peter Austin]

Have a look at Frank Lichtenberk's work on what he dubbed "inclusory constructions" and many subsequent papers on Asia-Australia-Pacific languages. A Google search on the term will find many examples.

Best
Peter


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From: Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org> on behalf of Randy LaPolla <randy.lapolla at gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 6, 2023 8:01:08 AM
To: Pun Ho Lui <luiph001 at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Lingtyp] Summary numeral in the world languages

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.


(1) Zaozou

ŋu55-mu55 na53 phiɛ33

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
(iñché) 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 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

I am wondering if there are other languages sharing similar constructions.

Thank you.

Warmest,
Joe Pun Ho Lui



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