Swahili indefinite pronouns

Swahili has two major series of indefinite pronouns: generic nouns used as indefinites, as mtu 'person', and the free-choice and negative CL-o CL-ote, a noun with its gender prefix on -o and on -ote, as in mtu ye yote. Haspelmath counts the generic nouns as a series for comparability, though they may not be grammaticalized as pronouns. The members are those of Haspelmath's table, without the determiner of the CL-o CL-ote series, which it gives only as the schema.

References

• [Has97]

def Swahili.Indefinites.mtu : IndefinitePronoun

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

Equations

• Swahili.Indefinites.mtu = { form := Swahili.mtu.form, ontology := Pronoun.OntologicalCategory.person }

def Swahili.Indefinites.mtuYeYote : IndefinitePronoun

mtu ye yote, mtu with ye and yote, its gender's forms of -o and -ote.

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The series

def Swahili.Indefinites.genericNounSeries : IndefinitePronoun.Series

The generic nouns used as indefinites.

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def Swahili.Indefinites.oOteSeries : IndefinitePronoun.Series

The CL-o CL-ote series.

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