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Haspelmath 1997

Haspelmath, Martin (1997). Indefinite pronouns. Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

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1. Typologically, the pattern maps onto the cross-linguistic tendency — documented by — for interrogative and indefinite functions to be formally related but distinguished by particles or suppletive roots. no page Interrogative, Indefinite, and Negative-Polarity Pro-forms
2. The series is of the cross-linguistically common type whose members derive from interrogatives and spread across a graded set of functions — specific and non-specific existential, question, conditional, and negation . no page Negative-Polarity Indefinites and the Scope of Negation