Author | : Martin Haspelmath |
Publisher | : Clarendon Press |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Comparative linguistics |
ISBN | : 019829963X |
Presents an encyclopaedic investigation of indefinite pronouns in the languages of the world. This book 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.