[Lingtyp] Summary numeral in the world languages

[Sergey Say]

 Dear Joe,
I see you that already have Mongolian on your list, but you can also add Kalmyk. In this consistently head-final language, the numeral comes after the coordinands and serves as the (only) morphosyntactic locus of the complex NP. 

(1)    ter      tuʁǝl    ükǝr    xojr-ar        ʁar-č        this    calf     cow     two-INS    go_out-EV        Lit. ‘It went out through the calf and the cow’ (Takenfrom a story where a curse didn't affect a woman because it affected her cowand her calf -- they unexpectedly died).
There is an interesting variation on this construction: the first component of the complex NP may be a very special 1PL or 2PL pronoun, as in (2). 

(2)    ma    xojr-in         bur-lʁ-n-a                          tölä              üsǝ          busl-ad             güü-ǯǝ        we    two-GEN    chat-NMLZ-EXT-GEN    because.of   milk-EXT    boil-CV.ANT  run-EV        ‘Because the two of us were chatting, the milk boiled over.’
The ma pronoun in (2) is not marked for case and is actually different from the usual 1PL pronoun madǝn, where dǝn is historically a plural morpheme.
The reference I can give is unfortunately in Russian (available here).

Say, S. S. 2009. Grammatičeskij očerk kalmyckogo jazyka [= A grammar sketch of the Kalmyk language]. Acta Linguistica Petropolitana, V, 2. 622–709. 

All best,
Sergey




    On Wednesday, September 6, 2023 at 10:02:09 AM GMT+3, Randy LaPolla <randy.lapolla at gmail.com> wrote:  
 
 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, PapuanMalay, Yakut, 
InariSaami, Mongolian, ClassicalTibetan, HuallagaQuechua, Wardaman, Khanty, VedicSanskrit, 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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