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Associative forms in a typology of number systems: evidence from Yup'ik1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Greville G. Corbett  and
Marianne Mithun
Greville G. Corbett
Affiliation:
Department of Linguistic and International Studies, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey GU2 5XH, U.K. E-mail: g.corbett@surrey.ac.uk
Marianne Mithun
Affiliation:
Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, U.S.A. E-mail: mithun@humanitas.ucsb.edu
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A general typology of number systems has to confront the problem of variation both in the number values in different languages and in the inventories of nominals involved. We start from the Smith-Stark Hierarchy and extend this approach to additional numbers (such as dual and paucal). Associative plurals appear to undermine this typology, if we treat them as a third number. Either the associative plural or the ordinary plural proves to be exceptional.

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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 32 , Issue 1 , March 1996 , pp. 1 - 17
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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