Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Numeral systems and patterns of change
  • Artificially growing a numeral system
  • When numeral systems are expanded
  • Pre-decimal structures in counting and metrology
  • Haruai numerals and their implications for the history and typology of numeral systems
  • Types of numeral changes
  • Classifiers in East and Southeast Asian languages Counting and beyond
  • Some remarks on numeral morphosyntax in Slavic
  • Numeral reconstruction in several major language groups of Europe and Asia
  • The Indo-European system of numerals from '1' to '10'
  • On the history of non-decimal systems and their elements in numerals of Aryan languages
  • The numeral system of the Uralic languages
  • The Austroasiatic numerals '1' to '10' from a historical and typological perspective
  • Subject index
  • Language index.