Kannada indefinite pronouns

Kannada builds its indefinite pronouns by suffixing a particle to an interrogative pronoun, three series on yaaru 'who': yaar-oo 'someone', with -oo 'or', for a referent the speaker presupposes but cannot identify; yaar-aadaruu 'anyone', with -aadaruu 'even if it be', for irrealis non-specific reference and in questions and conditionals; and yaar-uu, with -uu 'also, even', under negation, in comparatives and for free choice. No series is used for a referent the speaker has in mind. The members are those of Haspelmath's table, as he segments them; both the masculine and the feminine determiner of the -oo series are entered, and the determiner of the -uu series is cited with its noun as X, as he cites it.

References

• [DA25]
• [Has97]

def Kannada.Indefinites.yaarOo : IndefinitePronoun

yaar-oo 'someone'.

Equations

• Kannada.Indefinites.yaarOo = { form := "yaar-oo", ontology := Pronoun.OntologicalCategory.person }

def Kannada.Indefinites.yaarAadaruu : IndefinitePronoun

yaar-aadaruu 'anyone'.

Equations

• Kannada.Indefinites.yaarAadaruu = { form := "yaar-aadaruu", ontology := Pronoun.OntologicalCategory.person }

def Kannada.Indefinites.yaarUu : IndefinitePronoun

yaar-uu 'anyone, no one'.

Equations

• Kannada.Indefinites.yaarUu = { form := "yaar-uu", ontology := Pronoun.OntologicalCategory.person }

The series

def Kannada.Indefinites.ooSeries : IndefinitePronoun.Series

The -oo series.

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def Kannada.Indefinites.aadaruuSeries : IndefinitePronoun.Series

The -aadaruu series.

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def Kannada.Indefinites.uuSeries : IndefinitePronoun.Series

The -uu series.

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