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PDF pending restorationBackus, Robert L. – 1973
The varied forms and semantic factors of Japanese ordinal expressions are related to one another in a coherent system. In Japanese, the cardinal number form is a numeral compound in construction with a referent. The numeral compound consists of a number and a numeral adjunct. Numeral adjuncts are derived from bound forms, or numeral suffixes, and…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Japanese, Language Usage, Linguistic Theory
