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Overt Coordination in Additive Numerals of Minority Languages in South China
Author(s) -
He Chuansheng,
Her OneSoon,
Hu Xiaoshi,
Zhu Weijing
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
syntax
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.587
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1467-9612
pISSN - 1368-0005
DOI - 10.1111/synt.12137
Subject(s) - numeral system , typology , linguistics , noun , china , computer science , feature (linguistics) , arithmetic , mathematics , natural language processing , geography , philosophy , archaeology
This paper explores a typology of overt coordination in additive numerals in a number of minority languages in South China. Among approximately 100 minority languages surveyed, 26 languages feature different coordinators for additive numerals and noun phrases. We show that these two types of coordinators are not semantically, etymologically, or morphologically related. This phenomenon presents a serious challenge to the proposal that additive numerals do not form constituents and that numeral coordination is derived from underlying nominal coordination in such languages.