Mandarin indefinite pronouns

Mandarin uses its bare interrogatives as indefinites, as shéi 'who' for 'someone, anyone', and derives two series from them with dōu and yě 'even, also; every, all', shéi dōu and shéi yě. Generic nouns such as rén 'person' are also used as indefinites, and the determiner rènhé 'any' can be counted a series of its own. The members are those of Haspelmath's table, the bare interrogatives being its interrogative column, and the generic-noun series is entered with rén, the one generic noun he names; the series are named as he names them.

References

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def Mandarin.Indefinites.ren : IndefinitePronoun

The generic noun rén 'person' used as an indefinite.

Equations

• Mandarin.Indefinites.ren = { form := Mandarin.Nouns.ren.form, script := some Mandarin.Nouns.ren.hanzi, ontology := Pronoun.OntologicalCategory.person }

def Mandarin.Indefinites.shei : IndefinitePronoun

Bare shéi 'who' used as an indefinite.

Equations

• Mandarin.Indefinites.shei = { form := "shéi", script := some "谁", ontology := Pronoun.OntologicalCategory.person }

def Mandarin.Indefinites.shenme : IndefinitePronoun

Bare shénme 'what' used as an indefinite.

Equations

• Mandarin.Indefinites.shenme = { form := "shénme", script := some "什么", ontology := Pronoun.OntologicalCategory.thing }

def Mandarin.Indefinites.sheiDou : IndefinitePronoun

shéi dōu, the interrogative with dōu.

Equations

• Mandarin.Indefinites.sheiDou = { form := "shéi dōu", script := some "谁都", ontology := Pronoun.OntologicalCategory.person }

def Mandarin.Indefinites.sheiYe : IndefinitePronoun

shéi yě, the interrogative with yě.

Equations

• Mandarin.Indefinites.sheiYe = { form := "shéi yě", script := some "谁也", ontology := Pronoun.OntologicalCategory.person }

def Mandarin.Indefinites.renhe : IndefinitePronoun

The determiner rènhé 'any'.

Equations

• Mandarin.Indefinites.renhe = { form := "rènhé", script := some "任何", ontology := Pronoun.OntologicalCategory.determiner }

The series

def Mandarin.Indefinites.genericNounSeries : IndefinitePronoun.Series

The generic nouns used as indefinites.

Equations

• Mandarin.Indefinites.genericNounSeries = { name := "generic noun", members := {Mandarin.Indefinites.ren} }

def Mandarin.Indefinites.interrogativeSeries : IndefinitePronoun.Series

The bare interrogatives used as indefinites.

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def Mandarin.Indefinites.douSeries : IndefinitePronoun.Series

The dōu series.

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def Mandarin.Indefinites.yeSeries : IndefinitePronoun.Series

The yě series.

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def Mandarin.Indefinites.renheSeries : IndefinitePronoun.Series

The series of the determiner rènhé.

Equations

• Mandarin.Indefinites.renheSeries = { name := "rènhé", members := {Mandarin.Indefinites.renhe} }