[INDOLOGY] Sanskrit cardinal numerals: clarification

[Witzel, Michael]

Since we are at it:

there also is the very useful book by the always extremely well-informed Czech linguist Vaclav Blazek:

Václav Blažek.
Numerals. Comparative-etymological analyses and their implications. Brno:  Masarykova Univerziteta v Brne 1999.

After dealing with other language families, pp. 141- 324 deal with Indo-European languages:
the numbers 1-9, 10, 100, 1000.
Followed by a general section on "patterns of creating numerals"

Cheers,
Michael



On Jun 20, 2014, at 1:49 PM, Richard Salomon wrote:

Here's another: I don't recall that this important source for Sanskrit/Indic numerals has been mentioned yet in this thread:

Jadranka Gvozdanovic' (ed.), Indo-European Numerals (de Gruyter, 1992), with articles on OIA/MIA/NIA by Emmerick, Norman, and H. Berger respectively.

-R. Salomon

On 6/20/2014 5:56 AM, Witzel, Michael wrote:
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 : LinkWackernagel, Jacob
Title : LinkAltindische 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<mailto:brendan.gillon at mcgill.ca>
<mailto: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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