Konstantin Pozdniakov, 2018, The Numeral System of Proto-Niger-Congo: A Step-by-Step Reconstruction
This book, which the author humbly describes as an “experimental project”, aims at providing a “quasi-reconstruction” of a core set of Proto-Niger-Congo (PNC) numerals, including the lexical items for 1 through 10, 20, 100, and 1,000. Starting from a seemingly easy question —what is the most probab...
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| Опубликовано в: : | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/lla, |
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| Формат: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Язык: | Anglais |
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Linguistique et Langues Africaines
2022
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| Online-ссылка: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Итог: | This book, which the author humbly describes as an “experimental project”, aims at providing a “quasi-reconstruction” of a core set of Proto-Niger-Congo (PNC) numerals, including the lexical items for 1 through 10, 20, 100, and 1,000. Starting from a seemingly easy question —what is the most probable PNC root for “two”?—, Pozdniakov ends up with a major contribution to comparative Niger-Congo (NC) studies, comparing data for 1,000 languages from 2,200 sources which he presents in 360 tables ... |
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