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The Pieces of Indefinites and the Nature of Cross-Linguistic Variation
It is a cross-linguistically pervasive generalization that indefinites (e.g., "somebody" in English) use interrogative words as building blocks (e.g., Japanese and Russian), though there are languages that use other building blocks, such as simpler indefi nites, in addition to/instead of interrog...