Universal #1356

Legacy number: 1356

 Number  1352
 Original  A serialized augend is always larger than its addends.
 Standardized  In numeral systems, a serialized augend is always larger than its addends.
 Keywords  numeral
 Domain  word formation
 Type  unconditional
 Status  achronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  56 languages mentioned in Greenberg 1978a
 Source  Greenberg 1978a: 266 (#18)

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Discussion
Notes
1. By serialization Greenberg means: Whenever there are at least two successive numbers ‘x’, ‘x+1’..., such that each is expressed as the sum of some constant ‘y’ and ‘z’, ‘z+1’ ..., respectively, we will say that ‘y’ is an augend by serialization. We may illustrate this from English. Let ‘x’ be ‘twenty-one’, ‘y+1’ be ‘twenty-two’, etc. They are expressed as (2x10)+1, (2x10)+2, etc., respectively. Hence 20 is the augend by serialization in these expressions, and 1, 2 ... are addends. The augend may have either simple lexical expression or be internally complex (cf. #1352), as with 20 = 2x10 in this example. 2. See also #1355.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
1. By serialization Greenberg means: Whenever there are at least two successive numbers 'x', 'x+1'..., such that each is expressed as the sum of some constant 'y' and 'z', 'z+1' ..., respectively, we will say that 'y' is an augend by serialization. We may illustrate this from English. Let 'x' be 'twenty-one', 'y+1' be 'twenty-two', etc. They are expressed as (2x10)+1, (2x10)+2, etc., respectively. Hence 20 is the augend by serialization in these expressions, and 1, 2 ... are addends. The augend may have either simple lexical expression or be internally complex (cf. <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=1352"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">), as with 20 = 2x10 in this example.

2. See also <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=1355"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">.