Indefinite Pronouns
Martin Haspelmath
Clarendon Press
This book is the first comprehensive and encyclopaedic investigation of indefinite pronouns (expressions like <em>someone, anything, nowhere</em>) 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.<br>