Form and Meaning of (Indefinite) Pronouns
This article is concerned with morphological forms of pronouns and how they relate to their semantic properties. A general difficulty is that the morphological shape of particular elements does not always wear all its semantic properties on its sleeve. It is by looking at the environment in which the form occurs that we can determine its syntactic category and its meaning. With pronouns, this is not different. We particularly have to be aware of the existence of morphological syncretisms: one form can correspond with different meanings.... ...
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