Japanese indefinite pronouns

Japanese builds its indefinite series on the indeterminate pronouns with a particle: -ka (dare-ka 'someone'), -mo (dare-mo 'nobody' with clausemate negation, and without negation the universal 'everyone') and -demo (dare-demo 'anyone'). A member of a series is its marker applied to an interrogative of Japanese.Pronouns, which derives its form and category. The members are those of Haspelmath's table, in the Hepburn spelling of the interrogatives where he writes itu, doo and ikutu.

References

• [Has97]
• [KS17]

The markers

def Japanese.Indefinites.ka : InterrogativePronoun → IndefinitePronoun

The -ka marker puts the particle -ka after the indeterminate.

Equations

• Japanese.Indefinites.ka = IndefinitePronoun.ofInterrogative fun (x : String) => x ++ "-ka"

def Japanese.Indefinites.mo : InterrogativePronoun → IndefinitePronoun

The -mo marker puts the particle -mo after the indeterminate.

Equations

• Japanese.Indefinites.mo = IndefinitePronoun.ofInterrogative fun (x : String) => x ++ "-mo"

def Japanese.Indefinites.demo : InterrogativePronoun → IndefinitePronoun

The -demo marker puts -demo after the indeterminate.

Equations

• Japanese.Indefinites.demo = IndefinitePronoun.ofInterrogative fun (x : String) => x ++ "-demo"

The person row

def Japanese.Indefinites.dareKa : IndefinitePronoun

dare-ka 'someone'.

Equations

• Japanese.Indefinites.dareKa = Japanese.Indefinites.ka Japanese.Pronouns.dare

def Japanese.Indefinites.dareMo : IndefinitePronoun

dare-mo 'nobody' under clausemate negation.

Equations

• Japanese.Indefinites.dareMo = Japanese.Indefinites.mo Japanese.Pronouns.dare

def Japanese.Indefinites.dareDemo : IndefinitePronoun

dare-demo 'anyone'.

Equations

• Japanese.Indefinites.dareDemo = Japanese.Indefinites.demo Japanese.Pronouns.dare

The series

def Japanese.Indefinites.kaSeries : IndefinitePronoun.Series

The -ka series.

Equations

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def Japanese.Indefinites.moSeries : IndefinitePronoun.Series

The -mo series, which has members only for a person, a thing, a place and a determiner.

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def Japanese.Indefinites.demoSeries : IndefinitePronoun.Series

The -demo series.

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