Suppletion of numerals ‘one’ and ‘two’ in Mandarin Chinese
In many languages numerals may appear in different forms depending on the context, which Greenberg (1978) called the contextual and absolute forms respectively. Greenberg made the universal generalization that if a numeral has two forms, then all the lower numerals also do. He then mentioned Mandari...
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Springer
2024
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