Summary Details
| Query: |
Numbers 6-10
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| Author: | MARC PICARD | |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email | |
| Linguistic LingField(s): |
Language Documentation
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| Summary: |
- ---- Last week, I asked for the following information: >I'm looking for languages in which some or all of the numbers 6-10 are >compositions of 1+5, 2+5, etc. I would prefer cases where this is >relatively transparent but I'll be more than happy to receive any data >and/or references pertaining to such structures. It looks like the dust has settled now so I'd like to thank the following people for responding to my query and providing information of the following languages: Lance Eccles Cambodian Bruce Connell Benue-Congo Languages Larry Trask Classical Nahuatl Bill McKellin Managalase John Reighard Japanese Catherine Rudin Omaha Jussi Karlgren Finnish Julie Reid Australian Aboriginal Languages Marcia Haag Choctaw Susan Fischer Nihonsyuwa (Japanese Sign Language) Malcolm Ross Oceanic Austronesian Jacques Guy Sakao (Vanuatu) Chris Culy Fula Robin Thelwall Daju Liguri Pius ten Hacken Guarani Jakob Dempsey Tibeto-Burman John E. Koontz Omaha-Ponca Mikael Parkvall Reference to <http://www.tezcat.com/~markrose/number=s. html> Bill Fisher Ainu Nicole Nau Khmer MJ Hardman Aymara Terhi Rissanen Finnish In essence, the various languages that were described can be classified as follows: (1) those with (pretty) transparent 5+1, etc. (excluding 10); (2) those with ROOT (not 5)+1, etc. (excluding 10); (3) those with 3+3, etc. (4) those with some vestige of one or more of the numbers 1-5 in the series 6-9. Unfortunately, I didn't get any data on what I was most interested in, namely the specific sequences 1+5, 2+5, etc. Now I know that such languages exist because I found some a few years ago in searching through Meillet & Cohen's LES LANGUES DU MONDE. I wish I could find more, though. Any other suggestions? Anyway, thanks again to all of you. Marc Picard |
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| LL Issue: | 8.444 | |
| Date Posted: | 31-Mar-1997 | |
| Original Query: | Read original query | |
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