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PDF pending restorationBackus, Robert L. – 1973
The varied forms and semantic factors of Japanese ordinal expressions are related to one another in a coherent system. In Japanese, the cardinal number form is a numeral compound in construction with a referent. The numeral compound consists of a number and a numeral adjunct. Numeral adjuncts are derived from bound forms, or numeral suffixes, and…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Japanese, Language Usage, Linguistic Theory
Download full textGreenberg, Joseph H. – 1972
This study is based on a sample of about 100 languages with numeral classifiers. An attempt is made at reconstructing the dynamics of the process by which such systems arise, develop, and decay. Among the hypotheses advanced are the following: (1) numeral classifiers involve the overt expression of one kind of quantification, namely, counting by…
Descriptors: Classical Languages, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics
