Good evening, afternoon, or morning to you, people of r/conlangs. Today's Saturday, and that means it's time for another typological paper! Once again, there will be some prompts for you to discuss in the comments.
Description of the linguistic expressions of fractions (Anicotte)
I found this paper as u/wmblathers posted it, and it seemed very fitting for one of my TyPoWs. We all know about the concept of fractions, but their linguistic expression is rarely talked about. The paper proposes a typology in which there's a distinction between suppletive, non-systematic and analytical, systematic fractional number forms. Now onto the prompts:
- How does your language express fractions?
- Which categories (those proposed by the paper) does your language's system fall into?
- How does your language express other mathematical concepts such as addition or division?
Remember to try to comment on other people's languages
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So, that's about it for this week's edition. See you next Saturday, and happy conlanging!