Counting in Hieroglyphic Luwian 1
This study investigates Hieroglyphic Luwian nominal number marking in connection with numerals in a detailed corpus analysis, bringing together philology and linguistic analysis. The result is that the numerals ‘two’, ‘three’ and ‘four’ mostly take plural nouns, while numerals from ‘five’ onwards ne...
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| Published in: | Transactions of the Philological Society Vol. 109; no. 3; pp. 220 - 231 |
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
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01-11-2011
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| Summary: | This study investigates Hieroglyphic Luwian nominal number marking in connection with numerals in a detailed corpus analysis, bringing together philology and linguistic analysis. The result is that the numerals ‘two’, ‘three’ and ‘four’ mostly take plural nouns, while numerals from ‘five’ onwards never do so. This leaves the language with a two‐tier system of grammatical number marking, which has many typological parallels. With lower numerals, plural marking in the noun is triggered by the inflection of the numerals themselves, and data from other languages in the region show that the (non‐) application of plural marking may well be an areal feature. |
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| ISSN: | 0079-1636 1467-968X |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1467-968X.2011.01271.x |