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Zusatztext The first book in a new series which aims to provide a functional-typological perspective to linguistic problems that are of both typological and formal importance. One couldn't wish for a better first book to inaugurate the series... highly recommended, not only to field workers... but also to any linguist who wants to see a textbook example of a linguistic analysis... adds significantly to our understanding of negative indefinites. Anyone working on two or more closely related languages should be required to read this book. Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
