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Melenchenko, Maksim (2022). “Presence of the numeral marker in the numerals ‘2’–‘10’”. In: Typological Atlas of the Languages of Daghestan (TALD), v 2.0.1. Ed. by George Moroz, Michael Daniel, Konstantin Filatov, Timur Maisak, Timofey Mukhin, Irina Politova, Elena Shvedova, Samira Verhees and Chiara Naccarato. Moscow: Linguistic Convergence Laboratory, HSE University. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6807070. https://lingconlab.ru/tald.
@incollection{melenchenko2022,
title = {Presence of the numeral marker in the numerals ‘2’–‘10’},
author = {Maksim Melenchenko},
year = {2022},
editor = {George Moroz and Michael Daniel and Konstantin Filatov and Timur Maisak and Timofey Mukhin and Irina Politova and Elena Shvedova and Samira Verhees and Chiara Naccarato},
publisher = {Linguistic Convergence Laboratory, HSE University},
address = {Moscow},
booktitle = {Typological Atlas of the Languages of Daghestan (TALD), v 2.0.1},
url = {https://lingconlab.ru/tald},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.6807070},
}This chapter is dedicated to the presence of the numeral marker in the numerals ‘2’–‘10’ across the East Caucasian family and neighboring languages.
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’:
| 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’ |