I-IV -- Contents -- Introduction -- Numeral systems and patterns of change -- Artificially growing a numeral system -- When numeral systems are expanded -- Pre-decimal structures in counting and metrology -- Haruai numerals and their implications for the history and typology of numeral systems -- Types of numeral changes -- Classifiers in East and Southeast Asian languages Counting and beyond -- Some remarks on numeral morphosyntax in Slavic -- Numeral reconstruction in several major language groups of Europe and Asia -- The Indo-European system of numerals from '1' to '10' -- On the history of non-decimal systems and their elements in numerals of Aryan languages -- The numeral system of the Uralic languages -- The Austroasiatic numerals '1' to '10' from a historical and typological perspective -- Subject index -- Language index