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Preliminary Recommendations

Indefinite pronouns

Indefinite Gr. example Gr. tag
kanenas PnId03MaSgNm
kapoios PnId03MaSgNm
merikoi PnId03MaPlNm
kati PnId03CoNvIc
katiti PnId03NeNvIc
tipote PnId03CoNvIc
kamposos PnId03MaSgNm
kathe PnId03CoNvIc
kathenas PnId03MaSgNm
katheti PnId03NeSgIc
allos PnId03MaSgNm

The first indefinite pronoun, `kanenas, does not form a plural and has two forms for the masculine gender: `kanenas' and `kaneis'. Both `kanenas' and `tipote' have a negative as well as an indefinite meaning:

`kanenas' = `nobody' or `somebody'
`tipote' = `nothing' or `something'

They have only the indefinite interpretation in affirmative and interrogative sentences, and both interpretations in negative sentences and answers to interrogatives:

``Eheis tipote;''
but
``Dhen ehei tipote pou na tou pyghainei''

The above two pronouns, along with `kati', `katiti', `tipote', `kathe' and `katheti' are uninflected. The pronoun `merikoi', on the other hand, does not form the singular, but inflects for case.

All other pronouns are inflected as adjectives (i.e. they mark gender, number and case).

Most of them function both as pronouns and pronominal adjectives. The pronoun `kathe' functions only as a pronominal adjective; its corresponding pronoun is `kathenas'.



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