The Marañón-Huallaga exchange route
In this article we claim that stone classifier-based numeral systems in a number of unrelated North-western South American language families/languages such as Kawapanan, Cholón-Hibito, Munichi, and, tentatively, Quingnam emerged due to calquing or loan translation (Weinreich 1963; Epps 2006, 2013)....
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Language: | English |
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Universidade Estadual de Campinas
2019-07-01
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Online Access: | https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/liames/article/view/8655449 |