Numeral Types and Changes Worldwide / / ed. by Jadranka Gvozdanovic.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Bisang, Walter,; Comrie, Bernard,; Edelman, Džoj (Joy) I.,; Gvozdanović, Jadranka,; Honti, László,; Hurford, James R.,; Justus, Carol F.,; Luján Martínez, Eugenio Ramón,; Sidwell, Paul,; Winter, Werner,
• HerausgeberIn: Gvozdanovic, Jadranka,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 118
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (281 p.)

Table of Contents

• I-IV
• Contents
• Introduction
• Numeral systems and patterns of change
• Artificially growing a numeral system
• When numeral systems are expanded
• Pre-decimal structures in counting and metrology
• Haruai numerals and their implications for the history and typology of numeral systems
• Types of numeral changes
• Classifiers in East and Southeast Asian languages Counting and beyond
• Some remarks on numeral morphosyntax in Slavic
• Numeral reconstruction in several major language groups of Europe and Asia
• The Indo-European system of numerals from '1' to '10'
• On the history of non-decimal systems and their elements in numerals of Aryan languages
• The numeral system of the Uralic languages
• The Austroasiatic numerals '1' to '10' from a historical and typological perspective
• Subject index
• Language index