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标题：Proto-Amerind Numerals
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作者：MERRITT RUHLEN
期刊名称：Anthropological Science
印刷版ISSN：0918-7960
电子版ISSN：1348-8570
出版年度：1995
卷号：103
期号：3
页码：209-225
DOI：10.1537/ase.103.209
语种：English
出版社：The Anthropological Society of Nippon
摘要：The Amerind language family includes all the aboriginal languages of North and South America, except for those belonging to the Eskimo-Aleut and Na-Dene families. Comparative linguistic evidence from extant (or attested) Amerind languages indicates that Proto-Amerind-the language from which all Amerind languages derive-used a system of counting in which an obligatory numeral prefix, ^* ne -, preceded the numeral root. The first three numerals in Proto-Amerind seem to have been ^* ne-k'^we ‘1, ’^* ne-pale ‘2, ’and ^* ne-q^walas ‘3.’A fourth numeral, Proto-Amerind ^* ta-pale ‘4, ’combined a reflexive prefix with the Proto-Amerind root for‘2’in order to express the number‘4.’
关键词：anthropological linguistics;Amerind languages;numerals