Origins of Northern Costanoan ʃak
En 'six':A Reconsideration of Senary Counting in Utian
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4770689 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Juliette Blevins (0000-0002-2063-4778, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 71 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 87-101 |
| Publication date | 2005-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of American Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7071 • E-ISSN: 1545-7001 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/430579 |
| OpenAlex | W2052244729 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 13 |
Proto‐Costanoan numerals for ‘one’, ‘two’, ‘three’, and ‘six’ are reconstructed by Callaghan (1990), leading her to suggest that Proto‐Costanoan may have had a senary (base 6) counting system, as originally proposed by Beeler (1961a). This paper suggests (i ) that Northern Costanoan *ʂak:en ‘six’ is a loan from Proto‐Eastern‐Miwok *ʂak:en ‘six’; (ii ) that, though there is little evidence for a senary counting system in Costanoan, there is evidence for base 6 counting in Eastern Miwok, from which, it is argued, the term ʃak:en ‘six’ was borrowed into Northern Costanoan and northern Yokuts; and (iii ) that Proto‐Eastern‐Miwok *ʂak:en ‘six’ is a derived form of the Proto‐Eastern‐Miwok stem *ʂok:e-, *ʂyk:e- ‘all, whole, everything’, lending further support to a senary count within this subgroup of Miwok. Under this analysis, only the numerals ‘one’, ‘two’, and ‘three’ are reconstructible for Proto‐Costanoan. This parallels Callaghan’s (1994) findings for Miwok, suggesting a restricted numeral system for Proto‐Utian as a whole
Arithmetic · Base (topology · Economics · Numeral system · Parallels · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology · Ancient Near East History · History · Linguistics and language evolution · Mathematics
| Citations per year | 0.07 |
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| Citation span | 2012 - 2012 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |