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93014876 03 01 01 JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code SLCS 151 Eb 15 9789027270634 06 10.1075/slcs.151 13 2013046346 DG 002 02 01 SLCS 02 0165-7763 Studies in Language Companion Series 151 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Number – Constructions and Semantics</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Case studies from Africa, Amazonia, India and Oceania</Subtitle> 01 slcs.151 01 https://benjamins.com 02 https://benjamins.com/catalog/slcs.151 1 B01 Anne Storch Storch, Anne Anne Storch University of Cologne 2 B01 Gerrit J. Dimmendaal Dimmendaal, Gerrit J. Gerrit J. Dimmendaal University of Cologne 01 eng 382 xv 366 LAN009000 v.2006 CFK 2 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.FUNCT Functional linguistics 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.SEMAN Semantics 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.SYNTAX Syntax 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.THEOR Theoretical linguistics 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.TYP Typology 06 01 This book is the outcome of several decades of research experience, with contributions by leading scholars based on long-term field research. It combines approaches from descriptive linguistics, anthropological linguistics, socio-historical studies, areal linguistics, and social anthropology. The key concern of this ground-breaking volume is to investigate the linguistic means of expressing number and countable amounts, which differ greatly in the world’s languages. It provides insights into common number-marking devices and their not-so-common usages, but also into phenomena such as the absence of plurals, or transnumeral forms. The different contributions to the volume show that number is of considerable semantic complexity in many languages worldwide, expressing all kinds of extendedness, multiplicity, salience, size, and so on. This raises a number of challenging questions regarding what exactly is described under the slightly monolithic label of ‘number’ in most descriptive approaches to the languages of the world. 04 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475/slcs.151.png 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_jpg/9789027259165.jpg 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_tif/9789027259165.tif 06 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_front/slcs.151.hb.png 07 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/125/slcs.151.png 25 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_back/slcs.151.hb.png 27 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/3d_web/slcs.151.hb.png 10 01 JB code slcs.151.001lot vii x 4 Article 1 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">List of tables, maps and figures</TitleText> 10 01 JB code slcs.151.002abb xi xiv 4 Article 2 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Abbreviations</TitleText> 10 01 JB code slcs.151.003pre xv xvi 2 Article 3 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Preface</TitleText> 10 01 JB code slcs.151.01sto 1 32 32 Article 4 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 1. One size fits all?</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">On the grammar and semantics of singularity and plurality</Subtitle> 1 A01 Anne Storch Storch, Anne Anne Storch 2 A01 Gerrit J. Dimmendaal Dimmendaal, Gerrit J. Gerrit J. Dimmendaal 10 01 JB code slcs.151.02aik 33 56 24 Article 5 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 2. Number and noun categorisation</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">A view from north-west Amazonia</Subtitle> 1 A01 Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y. Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald 01 A combination of number marking, on the one hand, and genders, animacy and classifiers of various sorts on the other, may form the basis for semantic subcategorisation of nominal referents, in addition to further such devices. The paper investigates number as a noun categorisation device in a selection of languages in north-west Amazonia, each with a system of classifiers used in several morphosyntactic contexts. Number is shown to be prone to areal diffusion in situations of language contact. 10 01 JB code slcs.151.03dim 57 76 20 Article 6 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 3. Pluractionality and the distribution of number marking across categories</TitleText> 1 A01 Gerrit J. Dimmendaal Dimmendaal, Gerrit J. Gerrit J. Dimmendaal 01 The crucial role of constructions in grammar has been argued for, in particular with respect to idioms, by Fillmore, Kay and O&#8217;Connor (1988). But constructions, varying in size and complexity, have been claimed to constitute a central property of language structure in general, in studies such as Goldberg (1995, 2006) and Croft (2001). The present contribution takes pluractionality marking on verbs as a basis on which to provide further evidence for this position. Pluractional constructions prototypically express repetition of some action or event. In the case of intransitive predications, the subject tends to be affected by this, whereas in transitive constructions, pluractionality tends to affect the object. As argued below (Section 2), a construction-level approach towards number marking across categories helps to explain how transnumeral (general number) meaning emerges in Nilo-Saharan and Afroasiatic languages. The present study also provides evidence (in Section 3) for a historical reinterpretation of plural event marking as plural argument marking in one Nilotic (Nilo-Saharan) language, Maasai. As argued in the final Section (4), pluractionality marking as &#8220;non-canonical&#8221; number marking is common in a range of languages belonging to different language families in Africa and elsewhere, and consequently deserves its proper place in a typology of number marking. 10 01 JB code slcs.151.04pet 77 110 34 Article 7 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 4. Figuratively speaking &#8211; number in Kharia</TitleText> 1 A01 John Peterson Peterson, John John Peterson 01 The present study deals with number in Kharia, a South Munda language of eastern-central India. Kharia possesses three grammatical categories which may be loosely termed number &#8211; singular, dual and plural. While the singular is unmarked, the dual and plural are expressed by enclitic proforms. In addition to expressing two or more than two entities, however, these forms also fulfill a number of other, &#8220;figurative&#8221; functions such as deference, associativity and approximation, which are the main emphasis of the present discussion. Here we will make use of the concept of &#8220;<i>n</i> (+1) indexicality&#8221; (Silverstein 2003) as well as a version of the so-called &#8220;NP hierarchy&#8221; or &#8220;reference hierarchy&#8221; deriving from the original, binary feature-based version of this hierarchy in Silverstein (1976), as opposed to other versions of the hierarchy. 10 01 JB code slcs.151.05tre 111 134 24 Article 8 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 5. Number in Kambaata</TitleText> 1 A01 Yvonne Treis Treis, Yvonne Yvonne Treis 01 The Cushitic language Kambaata (South Ethiopia) is a head-final and suffixing language with a rich nominal and verbal morphology. Number is marked on nouns and pronouns, and traces of number agreement are found on modifiers and verbs. This chapter concentrates on number marking on common nouns, thereby focusing on the interaction of number marking with lexical semantics. It demonstrates that in this language, number is a category between inflection and derivation. 10 01 JB code slcs.151.06kla 135 166 32 Article 9 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 6. The history of numeral classifiers in Teiwa (Papuan)</TitleText> 1 A01 Marian A.F. Klamer Klamer, Marian A.F. Marian A.F. Klamer 01 The Papuan language Teiwa has a small set of sortal numeral classifiers: one human classifier, three fruit classifiers, and a general classifier. The classifiers vary widely in function and distribution, and it is argued that it is unlikely that they have been inherited. Instead, it is proposed that Teiwa inherited a class of part-of-whole nouns from which certain members were recruited to be grammaticalised into numeral classifiers through the reanalysis of ambiguous structures. Two more factors have enhanced this development. First, the existence of number neutral nouns in Teiwa implies that nouns must be individuated before they can be counted, a function fulfilled by numeral classifiers. Second, areal pressure from Austronesian classifier languages has reinforced the development of classifiers. Connecting the numeral classifier system of Teiwa with those of its sister languages and the wider linguistic context of eastern Indonesia, we can thus identify structural, semantic and areal factors playing a role when classifiers are born into a language. 10 01 JB code slcs.151.07bri 167 198 32 Article 10 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 7. Number and numeration in N&#234;l&#234;mwa and Zuanga (New Caledonia)</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Ontologies, definiteness and pragmatics</Subtitle> 1 A01 Isabelle Bril Bril, Isabelle Isabelle Bril 01 In contrast with some other Austronesian languages, number (i.e. singular, dual, paucal, plural) in N&#195;&#170;l&#195;&#170;mwa and Zuanga is generally not marked by inflectional morphology. NP number is marked by demonstrative determiners which also mark definiteness. Numeration makes obligatory use of numeral classifiers (sortal or mensural) which classify count nouns into various ontologies. The subcategorisation of nouns into mass and count is precisely displayed by these two features: mass nouns are unmarked for number and uncountable, they always appear as bare nouns and may only be quantified, only count nouns are marked for number by demonstrative determiners and are of course countable. Demonstrative determiners and numerals appear in pre- or post-NP positions, i.e. in specifier or modifier positions. These positions correlate with pragmatics and discourse informational properties: pre-NP specifiers mark salient or referentially new entities, while post-NP modifiers encode referentially backgrounded entities. Numerals follow this pattern, in specifier position, they also have partitive reading. 10 01 JB code slcs.151.08cob 199 220 22 Article 11 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 8. When number meets classification</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">The linguistic expression of number in Ba&#239;nounk languages</Subtitle> 1 A01 Alexander Cobbinah Cobbinah, Alexander Alexander Cobbinah 2 A01 Friederike Lüpke Lüpke, Friederike Friederike Lüpke 01 This paper presents an account of number marking in two Ba&#195;&#175;nounk languages, Gub&#195;&#171;eher and Gujaher, also taking data from the Ba&#195;&#175;nounk language Gu&#195;&#177;aamolo into account. Number distinctions in these languages are coded epiphenominally through the paradigmatic relationships and combinatorial semantics of prefixes and roots within the nominal classification system. In addition, number can be marked through a dedicated plural suffix of the form <i>-V&#197;&#8249;</i>. In line with observations made for Bantu and other Atlantic languages, we analyse number marking within the noun class system (and, to some extent also through the number suffix) as derivational, not inflectional. Additionally, we demonstrate that number values do not reside in noun class prefixes themselves, but arise through the paradigmatic relationships holding between prefix and root and between prefix-root combinations in a paradigm. This account goes against a widespread analytical template of assigning singular and plural values to prefixes and assuming number correspondences between them. 10 01 JB code slcs.151.09and 221 264 44 Article 12 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 9. Number in Dinka</TitleText> 1 A01 Torben Andersen Andersen, Torben Torben Andersen 01 In Dinka, a Western Nilotic language, nouns are inflected for number and distinguish between singular and plural. The number inflection is not expressed by affixation, but by phonological alternations in the root and in such a way that the number is not directly observable, but only detectable through agreement. With simple native nouns, which are typically monosyllables, the number inflection is unpredictable and irregular, but some fairly common singular-plural patterns can be established, as seen in the Agar dialect. There is strong internal and external evidence that originally, many nouns had a marked singular and an unmarked plural. Synchronically, however, the singular is arguably the basic member of the number category as revealed by the use of the two numbers. In addition, some nouns have a collective form, which is grammatically singular. Number also plays a role in the derivational morphology of verbs. 10 01 JB code slcs.151.10sto 265 282 18 Article 13 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 10. Counting chickens in Luwo</TitleText> 1 A01 Anne Storch Storch, Anne Anne Storch 01 This contribution treats the number marking of nouns, numerals and the way these are used in counting in Luwo. This Western Nilotic language of South Sudan exhibits interesting patterns in the pluralisation of nouns, which have to do with the grammatical marking of nominal aspect. Moreover, Luwo uses different number systems for different word classes, whereas number-inflection of nouns is semantically supercharged, while verbs and adjectives exhibit a semantically basic number-marking system. The semantics of nominal plurals, and the relevance of nominal aspect for a diachronic analysis of the nominal classifiers that seem to be underlying in the complex number-marking patterns of Western Nilotic languages, are investigated in detail in this paper. 10 01 JB code slcs.151.11car 283 308 26 Article 14 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 11. Number in South-Bauchi West languages (Chadic, Nigeria)</TitleText> 1 A01 Bernard Caron Caron, Bernard Bernard Caron 01 South-Bauchi West (SBW) languages build a dialect continuum spoken in Northern Nigeria that has been classified as West-Chadic B. Their internal classification reveals a split between two subgroups: the northern subgroup (Geji, Polci) and the southern subgroup (Zeem, Dass, Saya). This genetic split is completed by a grammatical heterogeneity that surfaces in the morphological complexity of the Saya cluster, a subset of the Southern sub-group. The aim of this paper is twofold: (i) see if these differences are corroborated by the study of number; (ii) shed new lights on the genesis of SBW. To that effect, the first section presents an overview of SBW grammatical structure and genetic classification. The following two sections study number in Noun Phrases (noun plurals, modifiers), and in Verb Phrases (imperatives, pluractionals, and plural suffixes). The last section examines the relationship in SBW between number and related categories such as honorifics, associatives and singulatives. The conclusion introduces some nuances in this vision of a division between the northern and southern sub-groups, with the Dass cluster (e.g. Zo&#201;&#8212;i) behaving like the Northern languages in that they share the same absence of nominal and adjectival plurals and pluractional derivation. The presence of those plurals in the other members of the southern sub-group (i.e. the Zeem and Saya clusters) seems to be an innovation departing from a situation where number is expressed only by the personal pronouns, the modifiers within the nominal system, and the imperative. Pluractionals, although they are widespread in many Chadic languages, seem to be an innovation of Zeem and Saya as well. These innovative features may have developed through the influence of plateau languages. The innovation has gone one step further in the Zaar language with the optional marking of number on noun modifiers. Finally, a marginal case of subject-verb plural agreement on the right periphery has appeared in four languages (Zaranda, Geji, Pelu and Diir), first in the 2nd plural, and then has spread to the 3rd plural in one of the languages (Pelu). 10 01 JB code slcs.151.12pas 309 328 20 Article 15 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 12. Number and numerals in Zande</TitleText> 1 A01 Helma Pasch Pasch, Helma Helma Pasch 01 In Zande singular and plural are distinguished morphologically on nouns, pronouns and verbs, but nouns and pronouns can also be marked for associative plural. While some number-mismatch can be observed with regard to the choice of pronouns in possessive constructions, number marking with regard to nouns follows transparent rules. The quantification of referents by a universal quantifier or by numerals can be expressed within the noun phrase as part of given information or from a post-predicate position as new information with an adverbial notion. Numerals and the universal quantifier are also used as self- standing adverbials and as bare nominals in the function of the predicates. 10 01 JB code slcs.151.13vri 329 354 26 Article 16 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 13. Numerals in Papuan languages of the Greater Awyu family</TitleText> 1 A01 Lourens de Vries Vries, Lourens de Lourens de Vries 01 Numeral systems of the Greater Awyu family of Papuan languages are the topic of this paper. Extended body-part systems that employ the fingers, parts of the arm and head are used by most languages in this family. Body-part based numeral systems of this type are only found in parts of New Guinea and Australia and are therefore of great interest for the typology of numeral systems. They are closed systems, with 23, 25 or 27 as highest number in the languages of the Greater Awyu family. They are also interesting because of the role of conventional gestures to distinguish the primary body-part meaning from the secondary numeral meaning. The extended body-part systems are used in combination withelementary numerals for 1 to 4 that are not derived from body-parts. One subgroup of the Greater Awyu family, the Awyu subgroup, uses a hands-and-feet system which they borrowed from their neighbours. Such systems differ radically from extended body-part systems: they distinguish base and derived numbers, they are in principle open-ended (without a highest number) and they are not restricted to New Guinea. The paper describes the cultural contexts in which thenumeral systems of the Greater Awyu family function and pays attention to the interaction with borrowed Indonesian numerals. 10 01 JB code slcs.151.14aut 355 358 4 Miscellaneous 17 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Author index</TitleText> 10 01 JB code slcs.151.15lan 359 362 4 Miscellaneous 18 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Language index</TitleText> 10 01 JB code slcs.151.16sub 363 366 4 Miscellaneous 19 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Subject index</TitleText> 02 JBENJAMINS John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam/Philadelphia NL 04 20140319 2014 John Benjamins B.V. 02 WORLD 13 15 9789027259165 01 JB 3 John Benjamins e-Platform 03 jbe-platform.com 09 WORLD 21 01 00 105.00 EUR R 01 00 88.00 GBP Z 01 gen 00 158.00 USD S 66014875 03 01 01 JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code SLCS 151 Hb 15 9789027259165 13 2013046346 BB 01 SLCS 02 0165-7763 Studies in Language Companion Series 151 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Number – Constructions and Semantics</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Case studies from Africa, Amazonia, India and Oceania</Subtitle> 01 slcs.151 01 https://benjamins.com 02 https://benjamins.com/catalog/slcs.151 1 B01 Anne Storch Storch, Anne Anne Storch University of Cologne 2 B01 Gerrit J. Dimmendaal Dimmendaal, Gerrit J. Gerrit J. Dimmendaal University of Cologne 01 eng 382 xv 366 LAN009000 v.2006 CFK 2 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.FUNCT Functional linguistics 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.SEMAN Semantics 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.SYNTAX Syntax 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.THEOR Theoretical linguistics 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.TYP Typology 06 01 This book is the outcome of several decades of research experience, with contributions by leading scholars based on long-term field research. It combines approaches from descriptive linguistics, anthropological linguistics, socio-historical studies, areal linguistics, and social anthropology. The key concern of this ground-breaking volume is to investigate the linguistic means of expressing number and countable amounts, which differ greatly in the world’s languages. It provides insights into common number-marking devices and their not-so-common usages, but also into phenomena such as the absence of plurals, or transnumeral forms. The different contributions to the volume show that number is of considerable semantic complexity in many languages worldwide, expressing all kinds of extendedness, multiplicity, salience, size, and so on. This raises a number of challenging questions regarding what exactly is described under the slightly monolithic label of ‘number’ in most descriptive approaches to the languages of the world. 04 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475/slcs.151.png 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_jpg/9789027259165.jpg 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_tif/9789027259165.tif 06 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_front/slcs.151.hb.png 07 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/125/slcs.151.png 25 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_back/slcs.151.hb.png 27 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/3d_web/slcs.151.hb.png 10 01 JB code slcs.151.001lot vii x 4 Article 1 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">List of tables, maps and figures</TitleText> 10 01 JB code slcs.151.002abb xi xiv 4 Article 2 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Abbreviations</TitleText> 10 01 JB code slcs.151.003pre xv xvi 2 Article 3 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Preface</TitleText> 10 01 JB code slcs.151.01sto 1 32 32 Article 4 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 1. One size fits all?</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">On the grammar and semantics of singularity and plurality</Subtitle> 1 A01 Anne Storch Storch, Anne Anne Storch 2 A01 Gerrit J. Dimmendaal Dimmendaal, Gerrit J. Gerrit J. Dimmendaal 10 01 JB code slcs.151.02aik 33 56 24 Article 5 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 2. Number and noun categorisation</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">A view from north-west Amazonia</Subtitle> 1 A01 Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y. Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald 01 A combination of number marking, on the one hand, and genders, animacy and classifiers of various sorts on the other, may form the basis for semantic subcategorisation of nominal referents, in addition to further such devices. The paper investigates number as a noun categorisation device in a selection of languages in north-west Amazonia, each with a system of classifiers used in several morphosyntactic contexts. Number is shown to be prone to areal diffusion in situations of language contact. 10 01 JB code slcs.151.03dim 57 76 20 Article 6 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 3. Pluractionality and the distribution of number marking across categories</TitleText> 1 A01 Gerrit J. Dimmendaal Dimmendaal, Gerrit J. Gerrit J. Dimmendaal 01 The crucial role of constructions in grammar has been argued for, in particular with respect to idioms, by Fillmore, Kay and O&#8217;Connor (1988). But constructions, varying in size and complexity, have been claimed to constitute a central property of language structure in general, in studies such as Goldberg (1995, 2006) and Croft (2001). The present contribution takes pluractionality marking on verbs as a basis on which to provide further evidence for this position. Pluractional constructions prototypically express repetition of some action or event. In the case of intransitive predications, the subject tends to be affected by this, whereas in transitive constructions, pluractionality tends to affect the object. As argued below (Section 2), a construction-level approach towards number marking across categories helps to explain how transnumeral (general number) meaning emerges in Nilo-Saharan and Afroasiatic languages. The present study also provides evidence (in Section 3) for a historical reinterpretation of plural event marking as plural argument marking in one Nilotic (Nilo-Saharan) language, Maasai. As argued in the final Section (4), pluractionality marking as &#8220;non-canonical&#8221; number marking is common in a range of languages belonging to different language families in Africa and elsewhere, and consequently deserves its proper place in a typology of number marking. 10 01 JB code slcs.151.04pet 77 110 34 Article 7 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 4. Figuratively speaking &#8211; number in Kharia</TitleText> 1 A01 John Peterson Peterson, John John Peterson 01 The present study deals with number in Kharia, a South Munda language of eastern-central India. Kharia possesses three grammatical categories which may be loosely termed number &#8211; singular, dual and plural. While the singular is unmarked, the dual and plural are expressed by enclitic proforms. In addition to expressing two or more than two entities, however, these forms also fulfill a number of other, &#8220;figurative&#8221; functions such as deference, associativity and approximation, which are the main emphasis of the present discussion. Here we will make use of the concept of &#8220;<i>n</i> (+1) indexicality&#8221; (Silverstein 2003) as well as a version of the so-called &#8220;NP hierarchy&#8221; or &#8220;reference hierarchy&#8221; deriving from the original, binary feature-based version of this hierarchy in Silverstein (1976), as opposed to other versions of the hierarchy. 10 01 JB code slcs.151.05tre 111 134 24 Article 8 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 5. Number in Kambaata</TitleText> 1 A01 Yvonne Treis Treis, Yvonne Yvonne Treis 01 The Cushitic language Kambaata (South Ethiopia) is a head-final and suffixing language with a rich nominal and verbal morphology. Number is marked on nouns and pronouns, and traces of number agreement are found on modifiers and verbs. This chapter concentrates on number marking on common nouns, thereby focusing on the interaction of number marking with lexical semantics. It demonstrates that in this language, number is a category between inflection and derivation. 10 01 JB code slcs.151.06kla 135 166 32 Article 9 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 6. The history of numeral classifiers in Teiwa (Papuan)</TitleText> 1 A01 Marian A.F. Klamer Klamer, Marian A.F. Marian A.F. Klamer 01 The Papuan language Teiwa has a small set of sortal numeral classifiers: one human classifier, three fruit classifiers, and a general classifier. The classifiers vary widely in function and distribution, and it is argued that it is unlikely that they have been inherited. Instead, it is proposed that Teiwa inherited a class of part-of-whole nouns from which certain members were recruited to be grammaticalised into numeral classifiers through the reanalysis of ambiguous structures. Two more factors have enhanced this development. First, the existence of number neutral nouns in Teiwa implies that nouns must be individuated before they can be counted, a function fulfilled by numeral classifiers. Second, areal pressure from Austronesian classifier languages has reinforced the development of classifiers. Connecting the numeral classifier system of Teiwa with those of its sister languages and the wider linguistic context of eastern Indonesia, we can thus identify structural, semantic and areal factors playing a role when classifiers are born into a language. 10 01 JB code slcs.151.07bri 167 198 32 Article 10 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 7. Number and numeration in N&#234;l&#234;mwa and Zuanga (New Caledonia)</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Ontologies, definiteness and pragmatics</Subtitle> 1 A01 Isabelle Bril Bril, Isabelle Isabelle Bril 01 In contrast with some other Austronesian languages, number (i.e. singular, dual, paucal, plural) in N&#195;&#170;l&#195;&#170;mwa and Zuanga is generally not marked by inflectional morphology. NP number is marked by demonstrative determiners which also mark definiteness. Numeration makes obligatory use of numeral classifiers (sortal or mensural) which classify count nouns into various ontologies. The subcategorisation of nouns into mass and count is precisely displayed by these two features: mass nouns are unmarked for number and uncountable, they always appear as bare nouns and may only be quantified, only count nouns are marked for number by demonstrative determiners and are of course countable. Demonstrative determiners and numerals appear in pre- or post-NP positions, i.e. in specifier or modifier positions. These positions correlate with pragmatics and discourse informational properties: pre-NP specifiers mark salient or referentially new entities, while post-NP modifiers encode referentially backgrounded entities. Numerals follow this pattern, in specifier position, they also have partitive reading. 10 01 JB code slcs.151.08cob 199 220 22 Article 11 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 8. When number meets classification</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">The linguistic expression of number in Ba&#239;nounk languages</Subtitle> 1 A01 Alexander Cobbinah Cobbinah, Alexander Alexander Cobbinah 2 A01 Friederike Lüpke Lüpke, Friederike Friederike Lüpke 01 This paper presents an account of number marking in two Ba&#195;&#175;nounk languages, Gub&#195;&#171;eher and Gujaher, also taking data from the Ba&#195;&#175;nounk language Gu&#195;&#177;aamolo into account. Number distinctions in these languages are coded epiphenominally through the paradigmatic relationships and combinatorial semantics of prefixes and roots within the nominal classification system. In addition, number can be marked through a dedicated plural suffix of the form <i>-V&#197;&#8249;</i>. In line with observations made for Bantu and other Atlantic languages, we analyse number marking within the noun class system (and, to some extent also through the number suffix) as derivational, not inflectional. Additionally, we demonstrate that number values do not reside in noun class prefixes themselves, but arise through the paradigmatic relationships holding between prefix and root and between prefix-root combinations in a paradigm. This account goes against a widespread analytical template of assigning singular and plural values to prefixes and assuming number correspondences between them. 10 01 JB code slcs.151.09and 221 264 44 Article 12 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 9. Number in Dinka</TitleText> 1 A01 Torben Andersen Andersen, Torben Torben Andersen 01 In Dinka, a Western Nilotic language, nouns are inflected for number and distinguish between singular and plural. The number inflection is not expressed by affixation, but by phonological alternations in the root and in such a way that the number is not directly observable, but only detectable through agreement. With simple native nouns, which are typically monosyllables, the number inflection is unpredictable and irregular, but some fairly common singular-plural patterns can be established, as seen in the Agar dialect. There is strong internal and external evidence that originally, many nouns had a marked singular and an unmarked plural. Synchronically, however, the singular is arguably the basic member of the number category as revealed by the use of the two numbers. In addition, some nouns have a collective form, which is grammatically singular. Number also plays a role in the derivational morphology of verbs. 10 01 JB code slcs.151.10sto 265 282 18 Article 13 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 10. Counting chickens in Luwo</TitleText> 1 A01 Anne Storch Storch, Anne Anne Storch 01 This contribution treats the number marking of nouns, numerals and the way these are used in counting in Luwo. This Western Nilotic language of South Sudan exhibits interesting patterns in the pluralisation of nouns, which have to do with the grammatical marking of nominal aspect. Moreover, Luwo uses different number systems for different word classes, whereas number-inflection of nouns is semantically supercharged, while verbs and adjectives exhibit a semantically basic number-marking system. The semantics of nominal plurals, and the relevance of nominal aspect for a diachronic analysis of the nominal classifiers that seem to be underlying in the complex number-marking patterns of Western Nilotic languages, are investigated in detail in this paper. 10 01 JB code slcs.151.11car 283 308 26 Article 14 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 11. Number in South-Bauchi West languages (Chadic, Nigeria)</TitleText> 1 A01 Bernard Caron Caron, Bernard Bernard Caron 01 South-Bauchi West (SBW) languages build a dialect continuum spoken in Northern Nigeria that has been classified as West-Chadic B. Their internal classification reveals a split between two subgroups: the northern subgroup (Geji, Polci) and the southern subgroup (Zeem, Dass, Saya). This genetic split is completed by a grammatical heterogeneity that surfaces in the morphological complexity of the Saya cluster, a subset of the Southern sub-group. The aim of this paper is twofold: (i) see if these differences are corroborated by the study of number; (ii) shed new lights on the genesis of SBW. To that effect, the first section presents an overview of SBW grammatical structure and genetic classification. The following two sections study number in Noun Phrases (noun plurals, modifiers), and in Verb Phrases (imperatives, pluractionals, and plural suffixes). The last section examines the relationship in SBW between number and related categories such as honorifics, associatives and singulatives. The conclusion introduces some nuances in this vision of a division between the northern and southern sub-groups, with the Dass cluster (e.g. Zo&#201;&#8212;i) behaving like the Northern languages in that they share the same absence of nominal and adjectival plurals and pluractional derivation. The presence of those plurals in the other members of the southern sub-group (i.e. the Zeem and Saya clusters) seems to be an innovation departing from a situation where number is expressed only by the personal pronouns, the modifiers within the nominal system, and the imperative. Pluractionals, although they are widespread in many Chadic languages, seem to be an innovation of Zeem and Saya as well. These innovative features may have developed through the influence of plateau languages. The innovation has gone one step further in the Zaar language with the optional marking of number on noun modifiers. Finally, a marginal case of subject-verb plural agreement on the right periphery has appeared in four languages (Zaranda, Geji, Pelu and Diir), first in the 2nd plural, and then has spread to the 3rd plural in one of the languages (Pelu). 10 01 JB code slcs.151.12pas 309 328 20 Article 15 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 12. Number and numerals in Zande</TitleText> 1 A01 Helma Pasch Pasch, Helma Helma Pasch 01 In Zande singular and plural are distinguished morphologically on nouns, pronouns and verbs, but nouns and pronouns can also be marked for associative plural. While some number-mismatch can be observed with regard to the choice of pronouns in possessive constructions, number marking with regard to nouns follows transparent rules. The quantification of referents by a universal quantifier or by numerals can be expressed within the noun phrase as part of given information or from a post-predicate position as new information with an adverbial notion. Numerals and the universal quantifier are also used as self- standing adverbials and as bare nominals in the function of the predicates. 10 01 JB code slcs.151.13vri 329 354 26 Article 16 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 13. Numerals in Papuan languages of the Greater Awyu family</TitleText> 1 A01 Lourens de Vries Vries, Lourens de Lourens de Vries 01 Numeral systems of the Greater Awyu family of Papuan languages are the topic of this paper. Extended body-part systems that employ the fingers, parts of the arm and head are used by most languages in this family. Body-part based numeral systems of this type are only found in parts of New Guinea and Australia and are therefore of great interest for the typology of numeral systems. They are closed systems, with 23, 25 or 27 as highest number in the languages of the Greater Awyu family. They are also interesting because of the role of conventional gestures to distinguish the primary body-part meaning from the secondary numeral meaning. The extended body-part systems are used in combination withelementary numerals for 1 to 4 that are not derived from body-parts. One subgroup of the Greater Awyu family, the Awyu subgroup, uses a hands-and-feet system which they borrowed from their neighbours. Such systems differ radically from extended body-part systems: they distinguish base and derived numbers, they are in principle open-ended (without a highest number) and they are not restricted to New Guinea. The paper describes the cultural contexts in which thenumeral systems of the Greater Awyu family function and pays attention to the interaction with borrowed Indonesian numerals. 10 01 JB code slcs.151.14aut 355 358 4 Miscellaneous 17 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Author index</TitleText> 10 01 JB code slcs.151.15lan 359 362 4 Miscellaneous 18 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Language index</TitleText> 10 01 JB code slcs.151.16sub 363 366 4 Miscellaneous 19 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Subject index</TitleText> 02 JBENJAMINS John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam/Philadelphia NL 04 20140319 2014 John Benjamins B.V. 02 WORLD 08 825 gr 01 JB 1 John Benjamins Publishing Company +31 20 6304747 +31 20 6739773 bookorder@benjamins.nl 01 https://benjamins.com 01 WORLD US CA MX 21 10 16 01 02 JB 1 00 105.00 EUR R 02 02 JB 1 00 111.30 EUR R 01 JB 10 bebc +44 1202 712 934 +44 1202 712 913 sales@bebc.co.uk 03 GB 21 16 02 02 JB 1 00 88.00 GBP Z 01 JB 2 John Benjamins North America +1 800 562-5666 +1 703 661-1501 benjamins@presswarehouse.com 01 https://benjamins.com 01 US CA MX 21 1 16 01 gen 02 JB 1 00 158.00 USD