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Melenchenko, M. (2022). “Presence of the numeral marker in the numerals ‘2’–‘10’”. In: Typological Atlas of the Languages of Daghestan (TALD). Ed. by M. Daniel, K. Filatov, T. Maisak, G. Moroz, T. Mukhin, C. Naccarato and S. Verhees. Moscow: Linguistic Convergence Laboratory, NRU HSE. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6807070. http://lingconlab.ru/dagatlas.

BibTeX

@incollection{melenchenko2022,
  title = {Presence of the numeral marker in the numerals ‘2’–‘10’},
  author = {Maksim Melenchenko},
  year = {2022},
  editor = {Michael Daniel and Konstantin Filatov and Timur Maisak and George Moroz and Timofey Mukhin and Chiara Naccarato and Samira Verhees},
  publisher = {Linguistic Convergence Laboratory, NRU HSE},
  address = {Moscow},
  booktitle = {Typological Atlas of the Languages of Daghestan (TALD)},
  url = {http://lingconlab.ru/dagatlas},
  doi = {10.5281/zenodo.6807070},
}

1 Introduction

This chapter is dedicated to the presence of the numeral marker in the numerals ‘2’–‘10’ across the East Caucasian family and neighboring languages.

2 Results

This map shows the presence or absence of the numeral marker in the cardinals ‘2’ to ‘10’. In comparison to other subsets of numerals, numerals from ‘2’ to ‘10’ are most likely to carry numeral markers. If there is a numeral marker at all, these numerals attach it. Exceptions to this rule are found in Khwarshi, Lezgian, and Kubachi Dargwa. In Khwarshi, numerals ‘3’, ‘5’, and ‘20’ are the only numerals to have the marker. In Lezgian, numerals ‘1’ and ‘2’ lack the marker when used adnominally. This means that according to the definition of numeral marker given above, the numeral ‘2’ does not have a marker. In Kubachi Dargwa, only the numeral ‘9’ bears the marker. However, it is not used with the simple ‘9’ itself, only in complex numerals ending with ‘9’:

  1. Kubachi Dargwa (Magometov 1963: 134)
    ʕu:č’um
    nine
    ‘9’
    wic’-nu-k’ʷa:-ja
    ten-add1-eight-add2
    ‘18’
    wic’-nu-ʕu:č’um-al
    ten-add1-eight-num
    ‘19’

3 Distribution

The diapason from ‘2’ to ‘10’ is the core diapason of usage of numeral markers. If an East Caucasian language has numeral markers, they are used in this diapason. Due to this, no areal distribution can be shown.

List of glosses

add1 — ; add2 — ; num — numeral

References

Magometov, A. A. (1963). Kubačinskij jazyk [Kubachi]. Tbilisi: Akademija Nauk Gruzinskoj SSR.