Indefinite Pronouns
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 8 February 2001
- ISBN 9780198299639
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages380 pages
- Size 235x156x20 mm
- Weight 556 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous line figures 0
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Short description:
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.
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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 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 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).
of interest to all linguists with an interest in cross-linguistic variation and typology ... the book is clearly written and well edited ... the facts provided offer a great deal of food for thought to anyone with an interest in cross-linguistic work.
Table of Contents:
Overview
A Typological Perspective on Indefinite Pronouns
Formal and Functional Types of Indefinite Pronoun
An Implicational Map for Indefinite Pronoun Functions
Theoretical Approaches to the Functions of Indefinite Pronouns
The Grammaticalization of Indefinite Pronouns
Further Sources of Indefinite Pronouns
Negative Indefinite Pronouns
Conclusions
The Data of the 40-Language Sample
The Data of the 100-Language Sample
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