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Indefinite Pronouns by Martin Haspelmath, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From Martin Haspelmath

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Indefinite Pronouns by Martin Haspelmath, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Indefinite Pronouns by Martin Haspelmath, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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Indefinite Pronouns by Martin Haspelmath, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From Martin Haspelmath

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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 variationin their functional and formal 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 fourlogically 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 thedata, 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). | Indefinite Pronouns by Martin Haspelmath, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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