Tags · Domain Indefiniteness Reference to an entity the hearer is not expected to pick out. Topics with this tag Pattern How do languages build the paradigm of someone, anyone, no one, and everyone? Most often these words share one interrogative base (who?) plus a small particle — “also”, “every”, “some”, “any” — that sets the reading. A few languages, English among them, lexicalise the series instead. NegationIndefinitenessQuantificationSyncretism +3 Indefinites & Quantifiers → More in this facet Existence 4Location 2Possession 5Alienability 1Negation 4Quantification 2Comparison 1Perception 2Obligation 1Tense and aspect 1Modality 1Device operation 1Grammatical relations 2Benefaction 1Spatial relation 1
