Universal #1359

Legacy number: 1359

 Number  1355
 Original  All adverbially or partitively expressed multiplicands are serialized multiplicands.
 Standardized  In numeral systems, all adverbially or partitively expressed multiplicands are serialized multiplicands.
 Keywords  numeral, adverb, partitive
 Domain  word formation
 Type  unconditional
 Status  achronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  56 languages mentioned in Greenberg 1978a
 Source  Greenberg 1978a: 269 (#21)

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Discussion
Notes
1. MULTIPLICAND = a quantity to be multiplied by another.MultiplieR = a quantity by which another is multiplied.2. For instance, in Ancient Greek, “dis-khilioi” ‘twice a thousand’, the adverbially expressed multiplicand is also a serialized multiplicand. 3. See also ##1355, 1360.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
1. MULTIPLICAND = a quantity to be multiplied by another. MULTIPLIER = a quantity by which another is multiplied.

2. For instance, in Ancient Greek, 'dis-khilioi' 'twice a thousand', the adverbially expressed multiplicand is also a serialized multiplicand.

3. See also <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=1355"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">, <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=1360"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">.