Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction / Gvozdanović, Jadranka -- Numeral systems and patterns of change -- Artificially growing a numeral system / Hurford, James R. -- When numeral systems are expanded / Winter, Werner -- Pre-decimal structures in counting and metrology / Justus, Carol F. -- Haruai numerals and their implications for the history and typology of numeral systems / Comrie, Bernard -- Types of numeral changes / Gvozdanović, Jadranka -- Classifiers in East and Southeast Asian languages Counting and beyond / Bisang, Walter -- Some remarks on numeral morphosyntax in Slavic / Gvozdanović, Jadranka -- Numeral reconstruction in several major language groups of Europe and Asia -- The Indo-European system of numerals from '1' to '10' / Luján Martínez, Eugenio Ramón -- On the history of non-decimal systems and their elements in numerals of Aryan languages / Edelman, Džoj (Joy) I. -- The numeral system of the Uralic languages / Honti, László -- The Austroasiatic numerals '1' to '10' from a historical and typological perspective / Sidwell, Paul -- Subject index -- Language index |