Order N3 08_Demonstrative Noun Numeral
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| The value of the property Demonstrative Noun Numeral is "yes" when this order can be used in a
neutral context. Definition of Demonstrative The following context is a good context to set this property (Wang and McCready 2005): What do you think about …………………….. ? Another good context is to put the Demonstrative Noun Numeral in a phrase functioning either as a subject or an object of a clause: Context: There are exactly three children playing in the street. Someone tells you: ……………………………… are my students I know ……………………………. well. General Note on Word Order Properties: A "yes" value for the property Demonstrative Noun Numeral does not exclude a "yes" value for other orders of these categories. NA: for this property means that the language has no Numerals or no Demonstratives that can combine with nouns. -- Please add a glossed example for any ‘yes’ value. -- If Demonstrative Noun Numeral can be used in other types of contexts, please add an example with a comment, or send an email to the property authors. (In some languages for example, demonstratives can be used as specific indefinites (English: there is this movie you should see ‘ there is a particular movie you should see’) ) Examples: 1. English is ‘no’ for this property. *these children three 2. Dutch is ‘no’ for this property: * (Wat vind je) van deze boeken vier? (What find you) of these books vier 3. Arabic is ‘yes’ for this property. haaʔulaaʔi r-rijal-u l-ʔarba'at-u these the-men.NOM the-four.NOM 4. Japanese is ‘yes’ for this property. Korerano hon san-satu nituite doo omoi masu ka? these.no book three-CLF book about how think formal Q ‘What do you think about these three books?’ Here and elsewhere, we adopt the neutral gloss -no referring to the form rather than GEN, because of its wide and varied distribution.) Examples provided by Yu Tanaka and Jun Yashima. |
| Contributed by: Cristina Guardiano and Hilda Koopman |
| Language | Value | Contributor | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| =Hoan | No | Chris Collins | |
| Acehnese | No | Julie Legate | |
| Afrikaans | No | Theresa Biberauer | |
| + Albanian | No | Dalina Kallulli | This value is tricky. It is set to no because this pattern is only possible with an intonation break between the noun and the numeral, ungrammatical otherwise |
| Amharic | No | Girma Demeke | |
| Ancient Greek | No | Richard Faure | |
| Arabic, Gulf | Yes | Dimitrios Ntelitheos | |
| Bambara | No | Hilda Koopman | |
| Bardi | Yes | Claire Bowern | |
| + Basaa | Yes | Paul Roger Bassong | |
| + Bengali | Yes | Priyanka Biswas | |
| Bole | No | Alhaji Gimba | |
| Brazilian Portuguese | No | Ananda Lima | |
| Burmese | Yes | Timothy Ho | |
| Calabrian (Northern) | No | Giuseppina Silvestri | |
| Catalan | No | Victoria Mateu | |
| Chichewa | No | Sam Mchombo | |
| Chickasaw | No | Pam Munro | |
| Chol | No | Jessica Coon | |
| Czech | No | Pavel Caha | |
| Dagaare | No | Adams Bodomo | |
| Dholuo | No | Hilda Koopman | |
| + Digo | Yes | Steve Nicolle | |
| Digor Ossetic | No | David Erschler | |
| Dutch | No | Hilda Koopman | |
| Eastern Armenian | No | Karine Megerdoomian | |
| English | No | Hilda Koopman | |
| English (Singapore) | No | Adam Chong | |
| Ewe | No | Chris Collins | |
| Faroese | NA | Hjalmar Páll Petersen | |
| Finnish | No | Anders Holmberg | |
| French | No | Hilda Koopman | |
| Frisian (West Frisian) | No | Jarich Hoekstra | |
| + Ga | Yes | Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu | |
| galician | No | Naír García | |
| Garifuna | No | Pam Munro | |
| georgian | No | Lea Nash | |
| German | No | Viola Schmitt | |
| + Greek | No | Giorgos Spathas | |
| Gungbe (Porto-Novo) | No | Enoch Oladé Aboh | |
| Gurene | No | Samuel Atintono | |
| Haitian | No | Michel DeGraff | |
| Hakka | No | Iris Wu | |
| + Hausa | Yes | Michael A. Estrada | |
| Hindi | No | Gurprit Bains | |
| + Hixkaryana | NA | Laura Kalin | |
| Hungarian | No | Anna Szabolcsi | |
| Ibibio | No | Willie Willie | |
| Icelandic | No | Jim Wood | |
| Iha | No | Mark Donohue | |
| imbabura quichua | No | UCLA Linguistics 210 | |
| Indonesian | No | Mark Donohue | |
| Iron Ossetic | No | David Erschler | |
| + Italian | No | Cristina Guardiano | |
| Jamaican Creole English | No | Stephanie Durrleman | |
| + Japanese | Yes | Hilda Koopman | |
| Khasi | No | Gracious Temsen | |
| KiLega | Yes | Kasangati Kinyalolo | |
| Kiyaka | No | Lukowa Kidima | |
| + Korean | Yes | Hyo Shin | |
| Kuot | Yes | Eva Lindström | |
| Kurdish (Sorani) | No | Yadgar Karimi | |
| Kusunda | No | Mark Donohue | |
| Laal | No | Florian Lionnet | |
| Lango | No | Arwa Rangwala | |
| Lao | No | Alif Silpachai | |
| + Lebanese Arabic | No | Lina Choueiri | |
| Maasai (Kisongo) | Yes | Hilda Koopman | |
| Malagasy | Yes | Hilda Koopman | |
| Malayalam | Yes | Mythili Menon | |
| Mandarin | No | Mark Donohue | |
| Marshallese | No | Heather Willson Sturman | |
| Medumba | No | KEUPDJIO HERMANN SIDOINE | |
| + Middle Dutch | No | Gertjan Postma | |
| + Miya | Yes | Michael A. Estrada | |
| + Nahuatl (Central Huasteca) | Yes | John Garcia | |
| Nahuatl (Classical) | No | John Garcia | |
| + Nawdm | Yes | Hannah Kim | |
| Nepali | No | Mark Donohue | |
| Northern Thai | No | Alif Silpachai | |
| Norwegian | No | Marit Julien | |
| Nupe | No | Jason Kandybowicz | |
| Nweh | No | Hilda Koopman | |
| Okinawan | No | Ken Hiraiwa | |
| Old English | Yes | Willem Koopman | |
| One | Yes | Mark Donohue | |
| panjabi | No | Gurprit Bains | |
| Papuan Malay | No | Mark Donohue | |
| Pashto | No | David Pate | |
| Pima | No | Marcus Smith | |
| Polish | No | Barbara Tomaszewicz | |
| Q'anjob'al | No | Kathleen O'Flynn | |
| Russian | Yes | Denis Paperno | |
| Sandawe | Yes | Helen Eaton | |
| Scottish Gaelic | No | David Adger | |
| Shan | No | Alif Silpachai | |
| + Shupamem | Yes | Abdoulaye Laziz Nchare | |
| Skou | No | Mark Donohue | |
| Spanish | No | Michael A. Estrada | |
| Swedish | No | fredrik heinat | |
| Swiss German | No | Cecile Meier | |
| Tagalog | No | Edith Aldridge | |
| Taiwanese Southern Min | No | Arthur Wang | |
| Thai | No | Peter Jenks | |
| Tommo-So | No | Laura McPherson | |
| Tukang Besi | No | Mark Donohue | |
| Turkish | No | Murat Kural | |
| Tuvan | No | Mark Donohue | |
| Ukrainian | No | Roksolana Mykhaylyk | |
| Vata | Yes | Hilda Koopman | |
| Vietnamese | No | Binh Ngo | |
| Vlaški-Žejanski-Istro-Romanian | No | Zvjezdana Vrzic | |
| Wan | No | Tatiana Nikitina | |
| West Flemish | No | Liliane Haegeman | |
| Western Armenian | No | Hrayr Khanjian | |
| Wolof | No | Mariame Sy | |
| Yoruba | No | Johnson Folorunso Ilori | |
| Zulu | Yes | Claire Halpert |