Martin Haspelmath

Indefinite Pronouns

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Februar 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 582g
• ISBN-13: 9780198299639
• ISBN-10: 019829963X
• Artikelnr.: 21053210

Autorenporträt

Martin Haspelmath is a member of the scientific staff at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Liepzig. Previous positions have included Wissenschaftlicher Assistent in the Department of English at the Free University of Berlin, and Programme Assistant to the ESF-sponsored Programme in Language Typology (EUROTYP). He is the author of 'A Grammar of Lezgian' (1993), and co-editor (with Ekkehard Konig) of 'Converbs in Cross-Linguistic Perspective' (1995).

Inhaltsangabe

1: Overview
2: A Typological Perspective on Indefinite Pronouns
3: Formal and Functional Types of Indefinite Pronoun
4: An Implicational Map for Indefinite Pronoun Functions
5: Theoretical Approaches to the Functions of Indefinite Pronouns
6: The Grammaticalization of Indefinite Pronouns
7: Further Sources of Indefinite Pronouns
8: Negative Indefinite Pronouns
9: Conclusions
Appendix A: The Data of the 40-Language Sample
Appendix B: The Data of the 100-Language Sample