INDEFINITE ARTICLE   

PRONOUN MODIFYING a NOUN to SHOW that its REFERENCE IS NOT DEFINITE.
Old Chinese Criteria
1. Yī 一 is used very much like an Indo-European indefinite article, from Zhuangzi onwards.<br>
Modern Chinese Criteria
rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／ LU JIANMING
Hypernym
  • PRONOUN　NOUN REPLACING ANOTHER NOUN. [] (anc: 13/0, child: 13)
  • NAME　SPEAK so as to REFER to something OR WORD USED for REFERRING to something. (anc: 12/0, child: 5)
  • WORD　SOUND IMAGE of a CONCEPT. (Leibniz, Couturat p. 432) (anc: 11/0, child: 7)

Words (3 items)

一  yī OC: qliɡ MC: ʔit 133 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • v[adN]some one thingCH
  • vadNarticlea; a certain; some
其  qí OC: ɡɯ MC: gɨ 3 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • npro.adN:adV:.adSWhen a(ny) given (hypothetical) N V-s, then SCH
他  tā OC: lʰaal MC: thɑ 1 Attribution
    Syntactic words
  • npro.adNan N