A talk entitled “Unifying dependent and independent numeral reduplication in Newar” was presented by Elizabeth Coppock at the University of Buenos Aires, December 17, 2025.<\/p>\n
Abstract: \u00a0Reduplicated numerals in Newar (to which matching numeral classifiers affix), as in\u00a0<\/span>cha-mha cha-mha nyaa<\/em>\u00a0`one-clf.anim one clf.anim fish’, like reduplicated numerals in languages where they have already been studied, can serve as\u00a0<\/span>dependent indefinites<\/b>, introducing existential quantification under the scope of a licensing universal. But they have another use as well, one that could be called\u00a0<\/span>independent<\/b>, as it does not rely on the presence of a distinct distributive operator in the sentence. The independent uses come with a universal interpretation. So reduplicated numerals in Newar have both dependent-indefinite and independent-universal uses. I propose a way of unifying them using sequences. The analysis offers a new lens on `simultaneous distributivity’, a phenomenon in which one and the same element marks both the share and the key.<\/span><\/p>\n