Fifty-eight
Fifty-eight
Author(s): Ivan Derzhanski
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Lexis, Comparative Linguistics, Descriptive linguistics, Finno-Ugrian studies, Western Slavic Languages, Eastern Slavic Languages, South Slavic Languages, Baltic Languages, Turkic languages
Published by: Институт за български език „Проф. Любомир Андрейчин“, Българска академия на науките
Summary/Abstract: Numerals, especially non-round ones beyond the first decade, are often neglected in descriptions of languages. Yet their formation is an area in which languages vary significantly and in interesting ways. Focussing on the number 58, we analyse its names in a genealogically balanced sample of 720 languages, classifying them by several features, and consider the geographical distribution of the various values of those features and their associations with one another and with other grammatical parameters. Finally, we address the relation between the number system and the colexification of ‘finger/toe’.
- Page Range: 148-158
- Page Count: 11
- Publication Year: 2025
- Language: Turkish, Albanian, English, Bulgarian, Romanian, French, Latvian, Russian, Polish, Swedish, Romany, Danish, German, Spanish, Belarusian, Hebrew, Hungarian, Greek, Modern (1453-), Estonian, Armenian, Italian, Georgian
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