"Fanciful" or genuine? Bases and high numerals in Polynesian number systems

Journal of the Polynesian Society

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 7-46

  Bender, Andrea ^a   Beller, Sieghard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

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