1 Number in the World’s Languages: Configuring the variation space

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of authors ix
4. 1 Number in the World’s Languages: Configuring the variation space 1
5. I Africa
6. 2 Number in Eastern Dan 27
7. 3 Number marking in Karko and Nilo-Saharan 63
8. 4 Number in Tswana 107
9. II Europe and Middle East
10. 5 Number in Arabic 131
11. 6 Number in Occitan 167
12. 7 Number in Slovenian 187
13. 8 Number in West Circassian 261
14. III Northern Eurasia
15. 9 Number in Ket (Yeniseian) 307
16. 10 Number in Nganasan 351
17. 11 Number in Nivkh 375
18. IV Pacific and Australia
19. 12 Number in Gooniyandi 427
20. 13 Number in Indonesian 457
21. 14 Number in Japonic Family 505
22. 15 Number in the Languages of the Lower Sepik Family 529
23. 16 Number in Marori 577
24. V Americas
25. 17 Number in the languages of South America 609
26. 18 The category of number in Kakataibo (Panoan) 671
27. 19 Grammatical simplexity: Number in Kiowa 693
28. 20 Number in Mohawk (Iroquoian) 729
29. VI Further perspectives on linguistic diversity
30. 21 Contact languages: A survey 767
31. 22 Number in Russian Sign Language 805
32. 23 Number in grammar: results and perspectives 833
33. Terms 911
34. Languages and language families 917
35. Authors 927