Numerals in Akebu

Makeeva, Nadezhda; Shluinsky, Andrey

doi:10.1515/opli-2020-0107

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“…The numeral 'one' and numerals from 'two' to 'nine' agree differently, but since numerals starting from 'two' are out of the scope of this study, their agreement markers are not given in Table 2. See Makeeva & Shluinsky (2018;2020) for details, but note that in this paper a different analysis is proposed .…”

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Floating low tone and consonant voicing in Akebu

Makeeva¹

2022

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The paper deals with floating low tone and consonant voicing in Akebu, historically induced by the nasal velar ŋ. The phenomena manifest in combination as nominal and agreement markers in a number of noun classes, as well as in independent pronouns. I argue against the analysis of paired voiced consonants as positional variants of their voiceless counterparts after the floating low tone found in the previous literature. This study proposes that floating low tone is considered only as a special case of the low tone and does not differ from the low tone on overt markers in any respect. Accordingly, paired voiced consonants are viewed as independent phonemes, while keeping in mind that they have acquired their phonemic status recently.

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Makeeva¹

2022

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Number Names

Corver

Tatsumi

2023

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Knowledge of number names is a subpart of our knowledge of language. This entry discusses various components of this knowledge, placing a special focus on the internal structure of number names and on their morphological marking. The following issues are addressed: the categorial nature of number names; the computational system underlying the formation of complex number names; the structural position of (components of) number names; the various morphophonological and morphosyntactic operations that are operative on numerals such as suppletion, contraction, and (c)overtness of functional heads; the formation of ordinals and the formation of counting numerals. The phenomenon of number names is considered from a comparative‐linguistic perspective: number names from both classifier languages and non‐classifier languages (macro‐variation) are discussed. Furthermore, certain formal phenomena related to number names are discussed from a cross‐dialectal (microvariation) and intra‐linguistic perspective. At a more general level, this chapter aims to show that there is a system of rules – a grammar – that underlies the formation of number names in human language.

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Incorporation as a nominal attribute strategy in Akebu

Shluinsky¹

2022

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Numerals in Akebu

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Floating low tone and consonant voicing in Akebu

Floating low tone and consonant voicing in Akebu

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Incorporation as a nominal attribute strategy in Akebu

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