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Indefinite Pronouns (Hardcover, New)
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Indefinite Pronouns (Hardcover, New)
Series: Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC
BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford
Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and
selected open access locations. Most of the world's languages have
indefinite pronouns, that is, expressions such as someone,
anything, and nowhere. Martin Haspelmath presents the first
comprehensive and encyclopaedic investigation of indefinite
pronouns in the languages of the world, mapping out the range of
variation in their functional and formative properties. He shows
that cross-linguistic diversity is severely constrained by a set of
implicational universals and by a number of unrestricted
universals. The author treats his subject matter broadly within the
Humboldt-Greenberg tradition of language typology, but also
considers the contribution of other theoretical approaches to an
understanding of the functional and formal properties of indefinite
pronouns. The book is organized into four logically ordered steps:
selection of a part of grammar- indefinite pronouns-that can be
identified across languages by formal and functional criteria;
investigation of the properties of indefinite pronouns in a
world-wide sample of forty languages; formulation of
generalizations that emerge from the data, summarized in the form
of an implicational map; and theoretically informed explanations of
the generalizations, which go beyond system-internal statements,
appealing to cognitive semantics, functional pressures, and
universals of language change (especially grammaticalization).
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