Indefinite Pronouns (Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory)

by Martin Haspelmath (Author)

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  2001

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  This book is the first comprehensive and encyclopaedic investigation of indefinite pronouns (expressions like 'someone', 'anything', 'nowhere') in the languages of the world. It shows that the range of variation in the functional and formal properties of indefinite pronouns is subject to a set of universal implicational constraints, and proposes explanations for these universals.