Number - Constructions and Semantics -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- List of tables, maps and figures -- Tables -- Table I.1. Major nominal subcategories (Rijkhoff 2002: 54) -- Table II.1. Classifiers in Tariana (a selection) (adapted from Table 5.1 in Aikhenvald 2003: 89-92) -- Table II.2. How classifiers help disambiguate a polysemous noun in Tariana -- Table II.3. Number distinctions, and number marking in Tariana -- Table II.4. Personal agreement markers in Tariana -- Table II.5. Personal pronouns in Tariana -- Table II.6. Number values for inanimates in Tucano and in Tariana: an illustration -- Table III.1. Examples of constructions, varying in size and complexity -- Table IV.1. Proforms in Kharia -- Table IV.2. Markers for tam and basic voice -- Table IV.3. Enclitic subject markers in the Tam/Person-syntagma -- Table V.1. Two exemplary nominal declensions -- Table V.2. Number terminology -- Table V.3. Personal pronouns -- Table V.4. Proximal ('this') demonstrative pronouns -- Table V.5. Discontinuous subject agreement on affirmative indicative main verbs -- Table VI.1. Numeral classifiers in Teiwa -- Table VI.2. Human classifier pronouns in Teiwa -- Table VI.3. Long and short subject pronouns in Teiwa -- Table VI.4. Fruit/tuber classifiers in Teiwa (repeated from Table VI.1) -- Table VI.5. Seeds, grains and fruits counted with bag -- Table VI.6. Fruits and bunches of fruit counted without bag -- Table VI.7. Dowry/bride prize items counted with bag -- Table VI.8. Other artifacts counted with bag -- Table VI.9. Artifacts NOT counted with bag -- Table VI.10. Wooden/natural objects with long/pointed shape counted with bag -- Table VI.11. Wooden/natural objects with long/pointed shape NOT counted with bag -- Table VI.12. Animals counted with bag -- Table VI.13. Animals NOT counted with bag.

Table VI.14. The use of bag per speaker, ordered by year of birth -- Table VI.15. Teiwa part-of-whole nouns with their meaning and the object they refer to -- Table VI.16. Plural number words in Alor Pantar (Klamer, Schapper & Corbett to appear) -- Table VI.17. Austronesian languages with numeral classifiers in eastern Indonesia -- Table VII.1. Properties of count and mass nouns -- Table VII.2. Numeral and possessive classifiers in Nêlêmwa and Zuanga -- Table VII.3. Numeral classifiers in Nêlêmwa -- Table VII.4. Pre-NP deictic and anaphoric determiners or pronouns in Nêlêmwa (­salient) -- Table VII.5. Post-NP determiners in Nêlêmwa (already referential, bckg) -- Table VII.6. Examples of post-NP, pre-NP determiners and pronouns in Nêlêmwa -- Table VIII.1. Different strategies for integrating loanwords in Baïnounk Gubëeher (GB), with one contrasting form from Baïnounk Guñaamolo (GN) and Gujaher (GJ) -- Table VIII.2. Suffixed plurals and animacy in Gubëeher -- Table VIII.3. Multiply marked plurals and alternative paradigm with human terms -- Table VIII.4. Derivational vs. inflectional characteristics of number-marking strategies -- Table VIII.5. The paradigmatic network of the Gubëeher root rac -- Table VIII.6. The Gubëeher root ceen 'red' in different syntactic frames -- Table VIII.7. The semantic contribution of noun class prefixes with nouns and verbal nouns in Gubëeher -- Table VIII.8. Person/number morphology in the verbal paradigm -- Table IX.1. Vowel quality gradation system* -- Table IX.2. Distribution of the singular members of a sample of 326 nouns in the Agar dialect of Dinka -- Table IX.3. The most frequent singular-plural patterns in a sample of 326 simple native nouns in the Agar dialect of Dinka -- Table IX.4. Nouns with originally morphologically marked plural -- Table IX.5. Nouns with originally morphologically marked singular.

Table IX.6. Nouns with originally morphologically marked singular and plural -- Table IX.7. Inflection of simple transitive verbs with a basically monomoraic root vowel in Dinka and Surkum -- Table IX.8. Inflection of simple transitive verbs with a basically dimoraic root vowel in Dinka and Surkum -- Table IX.9. Dinka cognates of Surkum nouns with an unmarked singular and a marked plural -- Table IX.10. Dinka cognates of Surkum nouns with a marked singular and an unmarked plural -- Table IX.11. Nouns with a morphologically collective form -- Table X.1. Pairings of singulative, singular and plural-marking suffixes -- Table XI.1. SBW independent pronouns -- Table XI.2. Noun plurals in the Northern SBW sub-group -- Table XI.3. Geji demonstratives -- Table XI.4. Geji genitive pronouns -- Table XI.5. Southern SBW noun plurals -- Table XI.6a. Sigidi noun plurals: -sə suffix -- Table XI.6b. Sigidi noun plurals: -eːs suffix -- Table XI.6c. Sigidi noun plurals: apophony -- Table XI.7a. Zaar regular noun plurals -- Table XI.7b. Zaar irregular noun plurals -- Table XI.8a. Sigidi noun plurals -- Table XI.8b. Sigidi noun plurals: apophony -- Table XI.8c. Sigidi noun plurals: -aːsə suffix -- Table XI.9. Zaar kinship terms -- Table XI.10. Zaar adjectival forms -- Table XI.11. Polci imperatives -- Table XI.12. Chaari imperatives -- Table XI.13. Sigidi imperatives -- Table XI.14a. Geji imperatives, CV verbs -- Table XI.14b. Geji imperatives, CVC verbs -- Table XI.15. Sigidi pluractional verbs -- Table XI.16. Chaari pluractional verbs -- Table XI.17. Ambiguity in SBW pronouns -- Table XI.18. Proto-SBW pronouns -- Table XI.19. SBW aorist subject pronouns -- Table XI.20. Number in SBW -- Table XII.1. Personal pronouns -- Table XIII.1. The Digul Wambon body-part system -- Table XIII.2. Wambon of the Winiktit area -- Table XIII.3. The Mandobo numeral system.

Table XIII.4. Aghu numbers -- Table XIII.5. Sjiagha-Jenimu numbers -- Table XIII.6. Pisa numbers -- Table XIII.7. The Kombai body-part system -- Table XIII.8. The Korowai body-part system -- Table XIII.9. Tsaukambo and Komyandaret numerals -- Table XIII.10. -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Chapter 1. One size fits all? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The meanings of number -- 2.1 Variation -- 2.2 Aspect -- 3. Constructs and the non-canonical marking of number -- 4. Social and cultural aspects -- 4.1 Honorifics -- 4.2 Numerals -- 4.3 Trade and diplomacy -- 5. How this volume is organised -- References -- Chapter 2. Number and noun categorisation -- 1. Introducing the topic -- 2. Number and reference classification in north-west Amazonia: A bird's eye view -- 3. Number, animacy and reference classification in Tariana -- 3.1 Number distinctions and the categorisation of nominals -- 3.2 More on number agreement -- 3.3 Multiple number marking -- 4. Interim summary: What is special about the Tariana number system? -- 5. Tariana and its areal context -- 6. Looking further afield -- 7. To sum up -- References -- Chapter 3. Pluractionality and the distribution of number marking across categories -- 1. Background to the present study -- 2. Plural arguments and plural events in Maban (Nilo-Saharan) -- 3. From iterative marking to number marking in Maasai (Nilo-Saharan) -- 4. Pluractional marking as non-canonical number marking -- References -- Chapter 4. Figuratively speaking - number in Kharia -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 The Case-syntagma -- 1.2 The tam/Person-syntagma -- 2. Number -- 2.1 The dual and plural in Kharia -- 3. Number and indexical order -- 3.1 Associative functions of the dual and plural -- 3.2 Honorificity -- 3.3 Approximative plural -- 4. Summary and outlook -- References -- Chapter 5. Number in Kambaata -- 1. Introduction.

2. Number marking on common nouns -- 2.1 Number terminology -- 2.2 Number morphology -- 2.3 Functions of number morphemes -- 2.4 Summary -- 3. Number marking on proper nouns -- 4. Number marking on pronouns -- 5. Number agreement on nominal modifiers -- 6. Number agreement on verbs -- 7. Number in Kambaata: Derivation vs. inflection -- References -- Chapter 6. The history of numeral classifiers in Teiwa (Papuan) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Overview of Teiwa classifiers -- 2.1 The human classifier -man -- 2.2 The fruit shape classifiers -- 2.3 The general classifier bag 'clf' < 'seed' -- 2.4 Summary -- 3. The development of Teiwa classifiers -- 4. Classifiers and number neutral nouns -- 5. Teiwa classifiers in their areal context -- 6. Summary and conclusions -- References -- Chapter 7. Number and numeration in Nêlêmwa and Zuanga (New Caledonia) -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 A brief presentation of Nêlêmwa and Zuanga -- 1.2 Number and numeration -- 2. Numeration and noun categories -- 2.1 Mass and count nouns -- 2.2 Paired entities -- 2.3 Collective NPs in Nêlêmwa -- 2.4 Associative NPs in Nêlêmwa -- 3. Classifiers and quantifiers -- 3.1 Count nouns: Classifiers and numerals -- 3.2 A brief note on the numeral system -- 3.3 Classifiers: Sortal, mensural-configurational and partitive -- 3.4 Choice and variation of classifier -- 4. Number, indefiniteness, genericity and referentiality -- 4.1 Bare nouns, indefinites and generics in Nêlêmwa -- 4.2 Plural nouns and indefiniteness in Nêlêmwa -- 4.3 Hyperonyms, generic nouns and indefiniteness in Nêlêmwa -- 5. Existential predications and indefinite nouns in Nêlêmwa -- 6. The morphology of number marking on NPs and VPs in Nêlêmwa and Zuanga -- 6.1 Semantics of reduplication -- 6.2 Number marking on NPs -- 6.3 Number marking on VPs -- 6.4 Number marking in some other Austronesian languages: Contrastive perspectives.

7. The syntax of NP determiner phrases.