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1Department of Linguistics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA.
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Languages lexicalize numerical concepts in many ways. Here I focus on what so-called 'low-limit' or 'restricted-range' numeral systems in Australian languages tell us about the linguistics of number concepts and how they change over time. It is a given in contemporary cognitive science that the types of operations that are available cognitively are human universals. But it is also obvious that languages and cultures differ in what ends up expressed in words and grammar. Numerals are one such area of variation. Australian restricted-range numerals come from the same sources as numerals elsewhere. Semantically, they appear to behave similarly to productive numerals. Australian restricted-range systems do not appear to behave like morphological number, as has sometimes been claimed. Why such systems are restricted is unclear; several hypotheses are investigated.This article is part of the theme issue 'A solid base for scaling up: the structure of numeration systems'.
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