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Indefinite pronouns / Martin Haspelmath.
LIBRA P279 .H37 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Haspelmath, Martin, 1963-
- Series:
- Oxford studies in typology and linguistic theory
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Pronoun.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Definiteness (Linguistics).
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 364 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [334]-353) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0198235607
- 0199618526
- OCLC:
- 34875702
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