[INDOLOGY] Sanskrit cardinal numerals: clarification

[Witzel, Michael]

Also not mentioned: the most detailed data on the numeral system in Sanskrit (also historical) are found in:

Wackernagel & Debrunner, Altindische Grammatik, vol.III (Noun and pronoun)

Author :	Wackernagel, Jacob
Title :	Altindische Grammatik, von Jakob Wackernagel und Albert Debrunner.
Published :	 Göttingen, Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1957.

But you would have to be able to read German.

Cheers,MW>


On Jun 19, 2014, at 5:42 AM, Dominik Wujastyk wrote:

> Not mentioned so far, 
> 
> Kim Plofker, Mathematics in India (Princeton, 2009).
> 
> 
> On 18 June 2014 14:08, Brendan Gillon <brendan.gillon at mcgill.ca> wrote:
> Thanks to the several people who responded, to whom I have replied off list.
> 
> By way of clarification, I am especially interested in the conventions governing the extension of the counting system to extremely large positive integers.
> 
> The problem I have set myself is to define formally a counting sequence for a variety of natural languages. On the one hand, I am interested in numeral systems as a subgrammar of a natural language illustrating many of the problems of the larger grammar of which it is a part; and on the other hand, once I work out the details for a language, I then formulate an exercise,on the basis of the grammar I have worked out, for my students in my course, Introduction to Semantics.
> 
> Cordially yours,
> 
> Brendan Gillon
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