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@mcgill.ca
<mailto:brendan.gillon@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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