Italian indefinite pronouns

Italian has three major series of indefinite pronouns: the general qualche-series (qualcuno), the negative nessuno-series, and the free-choice series in -unque (chiunque), the only formally homogeneous one and built on the interrogatives. The members are those of Haspelmath's table, which parenthesizes mai in the nessuno-series as no member of it; he elsewhere doubts that in nessun luogo is grammaticalized. The n-word nessuno is also Italian.PolarityItems.nessuno.

References

• [Has97]

def Italian.Indefinites.qualcuno : IndefinitePronoun

qualcuno, of the qualche-series.

Equations

• Italian.Indefinites.qualcuno = { form := "qualcuno", ontology := Pronoun.OntologicalCategory.person }

def Italian.Indefinites.nessuno : IndefinitePronoun

nessuno 'no one', from the negation nec and uno 'one'.

Equations

• Italian.Indefinites.nessuno = { form := "nessuno", ontology := Pronoun.OntologicalCategory.person }

def Italian.Indefinites.chiunque : IndefinitePronoun

chiunque, the interrogative chi with -unque.

Equations

• Italian.Indefinites.chiunque = { form := "chiunque", ontology := Pronoun.OntologicalCategory.person }

The series

def Italian.Indefinites.qualcheSeries : IndefinitePronoun.Series

The qualche-series.

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def Italian.Indefinites.nessunoSeries : IndefinitePronoun.Series

The nessuno-series.

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def Italian.Indefinites.unqueSeries : IndefinitePronoun.Series

The -unque series, which has no member for a thing, a time or a manner.

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