A Typology of Numeral Systems in South Asian Languages
Author : Kumari Mamta
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Release : 2024-06
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ISBN : 9781036402266
Author : Kumari Mamta
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ISBN : 9781036402266
Author : Kumari Mamta
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 47,7 MB
Release : 2024-04-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1036402274
This book takes a journey into the fascinating world of numerical systems in South Asian languages, offering a unique exploration of the intricate patterns, cultural nuances, and historical significance embedded within the numerical frameworks of the given languages. It blends the discovery of new facts with the reinterpretation of existing ones, while developing a methodology for investigating number systems that can be applied to languages around the world. It is a groundbreaking study that unveils the complex linguistic patterns and socio-cultural significance of numerical systems in South Asian languages, offering valuable insights for researchers, linguists, anthropologists, and language enthusiasts alike. By bridging the gap between linguistics, anthropology, cultural studies, and mathematics, this book encourages interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration by examining numeral systems from multiple angles.
Author : Jadranka Gvozdanovic
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,64 MB
Release : 2011-07-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110811197
TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.
Author : Kārumūri V. Subbārāo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 45,6 MB
Release : 2012-03-26
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521861489
Explores the similarities and differences of about forty South Asian languages from the four different language families.
Author : Ozo-mekuri Ndimele
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 22,36 MB
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9785421538
The papers in this collection present the numeral systems of more than twenty Nigerian languages. The papers mainly emanate from a workshop on the numeral systems of Nigerian languages organised by the Linguistic Association of Nigeria during its 23rd Annual Conference which was held at the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria. The workshop arose from awareness created by Dr. Eugene S.L. Chan on the need for Nigerian linguists to document this severely endangered but very important aspect of natural languages. The quantum of mathematical computations - addition, multiplication, subtraction, or a combination of two or all of these - involved in the numeral systems of Nigerian languages is remarkable. The papers reveal that a variety of numeral systems do exist, such as: binary, decimal, incomplete decimal, duodecimal, quinary, quaternary, ternary, mixed, body-part tally systems, and much more. The book is a resource about how different languages manipulate their numeral systems.
Author : Deniz Zeyrek
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Page : 262 pages
File Size : 23,95 MB
Release : 1983
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 30,93 MB
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Author : Jacek Fisiak
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 33,35 MB
Release : 2011-07-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110816504
TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.
Author : Paolo Acquaviva
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 822 pages
File Size : 43,19 MB
Release : 2022-06-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110619547
The strong development in research on grammatical number in recent years has created a need for a unified perspective. The different frameworks, the ramifications of the theoretical questions, and the diversity of phenomena across typological systems, make this a significant challenge. This book addresses the challenge with a series of in-depth analyses of number across a typologically diverse sample, unified by a common set of descriptive and analytic questions from a semantic, morphological, syntactic, and discourse perspective. Each case study is devoted to a single language, or in a few cases to a language group. They are written by specialists who can rely on first-hand data or on material of difficult access, and can place the phenomena in the context of the respective system. The studies are preceded and concluded by critical overviews which frame the discussion and identify the main results and open questions. With specialist chapters breaking new ground, this book will help number specialists relate their results to other theoretical and empirical domains, and it will provide a reliable guide to all linguists and other researchers interested in number.
Author : Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 18,3 MB
Release : 2000-03-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0191543985
Almost all languages have some ways of categorizing nouns. Languages of South-East Asia have classifiers used with numerals, while most Indo-European languages have two or three genders. They can have a similar meaning and one can develop from the other. This book provides a comprehensive and original analysis of noun categorization devices all over the world. It will interest typologists, those working in the fields of morphosyntactic variation and lexical semantics, as well as anthropologists and all other scholars interested in the mechanisms of human cognition.