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tri- is
another bound form occurring before the ordinal marker -tyor and
also before /-s/ ‘ten’ when the numeral has the structure of A X
B, as in :
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trityor
‘third’
tris ‘thirty’
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4.
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The numeral sari ‘four’ has
three positional variants. These are : sari, c w-.
and coli-. The distraction of these positional variants are as under:
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| (i) |
sari pora
‘from four’
sari suali ‘four girls’
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| (ii) |
cw-,
bound form occurring, before : (i) the ordinal marker -tyor and
also before -do ‘ten’ and (ii) -i- two’ when the numerals have
the structure respectively of A + B and A + (AXB), as in:
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cwtyor
‘fourth’
cwdo
‘fourteen’
cwis
‘twenty four’
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| (iii) |
coli-, a
unique bound form occurs, before -s ‘ten’ when the numeral has
the structure of A X B, as in:
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colis
‘forty’
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5.
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The numeral was ‘five’ has
four positional variants. These are: was, p*nd-, ponca- and ponc-. All
the three bound forms are unique bound forms. The distribution of
these are as under:
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| (i) |
was is a
free form occurring in the slots of both the nouns and the
adjectives, as in:
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was pora
‘from five’
was suali ‘five girls’
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| (ii) |
pnd-,
occurs before -ro ‘ten’ when the numeral has the structure of A
+ B, as in:
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pndro
‘fifteen’ |
| (iii) |
ponca-occurs
before-s ‘ten’ when the numeral has the structure of A X
B, as in :
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poncas
‘fifty’
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| (iv) |
ponc-occurs
as the first element before -i- ‘two’, when the numeral has the
structure of A + (A X B), as in:
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poncis
‘twenty five’
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6.
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The numeral choy
‘six’ has three positional variants. These are
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choy,
hul 1 and hat-. The distribution of these are as
under:
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| (i) |
choy
is a free form occurring in the slots of both nouns and
adjectives, as in :
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coy pora
‘from six’
coy suali ‘six girls’ etc.
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chy
also occurs before the bound form -i- ‘two’ when the numeral has
the struture of A + (A X B), as in :
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choyis
‘twenty six’
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| (ii) |
hul-a
bound form occurring before -lo2 when the
numeral ahs the structure of A + B, as in:
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hathi
‘sixty’ |
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7.
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The numeral sat ‘seven’ has
three positional variants, viz., sat, huto-and hotu-. The
distribution of these are stated below :
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| (i) |
sat is a free form
occurring in the slots of both a noun and an adjective, as in:
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sat pora
‘from seven’
sat suali ‘seven girls’ etc.
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| (ii) |
hotu-, a
bound form occurring before -r ‘ten’ when the numeral has the
structure of A X B, as in :
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hotur
‘seventy’
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| (iii) |
huto-
another bound form, occurring before -ro ‘ten’ and -i- ‘two’
when the numerals have the structure respectively of A + B and A
+ (A X B), as in :
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hutoro
‘seventeen’
hutois ‘twenty seven’ |
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1 hullo
‘sixteen’ is not considered a monomorphemic word, as it would then be
the only numeral within the teens having a monomorphemic word. Since
this numeral doesn’t have nay partial phonemic-semantic similarity
with any other numeral, its segmentation into two numerals must
necessarily have to be arbitrary. hati ‘sixty’ is segmented as hat-i
so that while hat- ‘six’ becomes a unique morpheme, -i ‘ten’ would
also occur with s- ‘eight’ in the numeral si ‘eighty’.
2The segmentation of hullo ‘sixteen’ into hul-
and -lo is arbitrary. It was, however, segmented out of consideration
for pattern congruity
3 The segmentation of hotur ‘seventy’ is also
arbitrary.
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