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Numeratives in Japanese: How speakers perceive things when they count - The Asian Conference on Arts & Humanities (ACAH)
Japanese language has morphemes which only appear next to a numeral when a speaker counts things. They are called josuushi or “numeratives”. Typical examples are -ko, -mai, -hon, and -dai. They also categorise the referent of a noun terms of its animacy, shape, size, function, and properties. It is estimated that there are more than ...