University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics
Abstract
By investigating ordinals in a wide range of languages, this paper addresses a puzzle regarding (im)possible constituent orders of nominals, numerals and ordinal markers, which is similar to Greenberg’s (1972) observation about constituent orders of nominals, quantifiers and classifiers. I propose that my observation and Greenberg’s (1972) observation can be captured by assuming that ordinal markers occur in the same positions as numeral classifiers.
Recommended Citation
Tatsumi, Yuta
(2020)
"(Im)possible Constituent Orders: Nominals, Numerals, Classifiers and Ordinal Markers,"
University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics: Vol. 26:
Iss.
1, Article 25.
Available at:
https://repository.upenn.edu/pwpl/vol26/iss1/25