Universal 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)
- Counterexamples
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 (2×10)+1, (2×10)+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 = 2×10 in this example. 2. See also #1355.