indefinite

Antonym(s)

Sources

• NASH 1968 104, 260 (vague)

  NASH, Rose. (1968) Multilingual Lexicon of Linguistics and Philology: English, Russian, German, French. Coral Gables, FL: University of Miami Press. 

• TRASK 1993 138

  TRASK, R. L. (1993) A Dictionary of Grammatical Terms in Linguistics. New York: Routledge.

• LYONS 1971 276, 296 (also "indefiniteness")

  LYONS, John. (1971) Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics. Cambridge: University Press. 

• WALES 1989 242

  WALES, Katie. (1989) A Dictionary of Stylistics. London: Longman. 

• KUNO 1987 159-160 (indefinite NP)

  KUNO, Susumu. (1987) Functional Syntax: Anaphora, Discourse & Empathy. Chicago: University Press.

• GIVON 1984 399

  GIVON, Talmy. (1984) Syntax: A Functional-Typological Introduction, Vols. I & II. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

• DIK 1978 61

  DIK, Simon C. (1978) Functional Grammar. Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Co.

• DIK I 1997 183ff.

  DIK, Simon C. (1997) The Theory of Functional Grammar, Part 1, 2nd edition: The Structure of the Clause. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

• BROWN & LEVINSON 197 (indefinite (n.), indefiniteness)

  BROWN, Penelope & LEVINSON, Stephen C. (1987) Politeness: Some universals in language usage. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.

• PEI & GAYNOR 1954 98 (indefinite conjugation, indefinite declension)

  PEI, Mario A. & GAYNOR, Frank. (1954) A Dictionary of Linguistics. New York : Philosophical Library.

• MATTHEWS 1997 174 (also "indefinite reference")

  MATTHEWS, P.H. (1997) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• CRYSTAL 2003 230 (= non-definite)

  CRYSTAL, David. (2003) A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics, 5th Ed Oxford: Blackwell.